In this interview with the current owner of Hershey's barber shop Don hershey, we can learn about it's history and even how it got to be the way it is today. Though Don's father only bought it in 1950 after they moved to medina from Grafton, it still has a long history before even then. The building was supposed built in the 1880s, about ten years after the great fire in Medina. From then on it was at different points a butcher shop and a plumming shop, but not even the City has much information about it. But it has at least been a barber shop since 1926, says Don, from what the previous owner, Shorty Goodman, had told him. Don even describes his fathers long working hours to where he and his brother hardly ever saw him, to how in 1933 the State of Ohio said one needed a barber's licence to cut hair, and therefore his father had to go back to school. Don also talks about the changes the shop has been through, not just in it's function, but also in, for example, the switching of the doors from one side of the shop to the other. Don continues about the legacy of teh shop, such as his nine family members all being barbers. Yes that's right. Nine. There's his brother, father, wife, daughter son, cousins, and so on. Even one of his employees who had worked every single day since 1949 left such an impact, he got into Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Regardless of what you say, this interview provides quite a goldmine to teh history of our town.
Hershey's barber shop was not Hershey's barber shop until 1950. So what was it before then?
The Medina Court House does not know when this building was built. On April 14, 1870, a large portion of the Medina square was burned down. Then the buildings were built back up. The earliest knowledge of this building is that it was a butcher shop in 1911, run by Henry Young. In 1925 Carl T. Earl plumbing & heating had residence of the building.
"Still a lot of ham in here."
-Don Hershey, referring to the building's past as a butcher shop.
In this interview with the current owner of Hershey's barber shop Don hershey, we can learn about it's history and even how it got to be the way it is today. Though Don's father only bought it in 1950 after they moved to medina from Grafton, it still has a long history before even then. The building was supposed built in the 1880s, about ten years after the great fire in Medina. From then on it was at different points a butcher shop and a plumming shop, but not even the City has much information about it. But it has at least been a barber shop since 1926, says Don, from what the previous owner, Shorty Goodman, had told him. Don even describes his fathers long working hours to where he and his brother hardly ever saw him, to how in 1933 the State of Ohio said one needed a barber's licence to cut hair, and therefore his father had to go back to school. Don also talks about the changes the shop has been through, not just in it's function, but also in, for example, the switching of the doors from one side of the shop to the other. Don continues about the legacy of teh shop, such as his nine family members all being barbers. Yes that's right. Nine. There's his brother, father, wife, daughter son, cousins, and so on. Even one of his employees who had worked every single day since 1949 left such an impact, he got into Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Regardless of what you say, this interview provides quite a goldmine to teh history of our town.
Hershey's barber shop was not Hershey's barber shop until 1950. So what was it before then?
The Medina Court House does not know when this building was built. On April 14, 1870, a large portion of the Medina square was burned down. Then the buildings were built back up. The earliest knowledge of this building is that it was a butcher shop in 1911, run by Henry Young. In 1925 Carl T. Earl plumbing & heating had residence of the building.
"Still a lot of ham in here."
-Don Hershey, referring to the building's past as a butcher shop.