Barber returns to first shop

Manuel Espinoza will close his bar­ber­shop on East Col­lege Street next week and reopen on South Main Street where his career in began.

Espinoza is mov­ing from his shop at 17 E. Col­lege St. due to ren­o­va­tions planned to the Apollo The­ater by Ober­lin Col­lege. He will move to the shop at 31 S. Main St., where he got his start as a barber.

“In 1964 I started in that shop,” Espinoza said. “Octo­ber, 1964, I came in and worked with Perry Walls as an appren­tice bar­ber. I like the idea of going back to the scene of the crime.”

He said he worked at that shop 14 years before mov­ing around the cor­ner to East Col­lege Street in 1978. Now, after nearly 33 years, he is return­ing to the address where he started.

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