Word: alleva
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...Alleva says he likes cutting American hair more than Italian hair because Americans are less pretentious and don't worry about the quality of the cut as much...
...Years ago I wouldn't be able to go out of the store to get a cup of coffee," says D'Alleva...
...remember someone picked up a stone so big that it went through our glass window and almost put a hole in the plywood wall at the back of the store that was 40 feet from the window," says D'Alleva. "The first impression I had was that King Kong came in and broke our window," he adds...
While the two barbers are used to distinguished customers they make no distinctions between patrons. "I take pride in giving a haircut to anyone. Not just a famous person like Kennedy or Galbraith, because everybody is going to be somebody someday," says D'Alleva...
...Alleva came to the United States in April of 1964 from Italy. He said life in America was very difficult for him at first because he didn't speak any English. One of his first hair cut customers he recalls, refused to let him cut his hair because Ralph could not speak English. "He wanted my words to cut his hair, not my scissors," says Ralph. "Actually, that man still comes here, but not to me, naturally...