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But those spring-wound models are old stuff, and William Marvy, who operates the last barber-pole factory in the U.S., is not impressed. When one of those clockwork barber poles comes into his shop in St. Paul for repairs, he sends it back electrified. Marvy, 70, has been in...
Then, with the routine purchases safely inked into his order book, he would make the big try. "Now, you're an intelligent man," he would admit to the proprietor, "and you might say dollars don't come easy, and why should I spend mine on one of these...
Such logic worked often enough that Marvy began to think of manufacturing barber poles, not just selling them. In January 1950 he opened his own factory. At the time there were five other barber-pole makers in the country: two in Chicago, one in St. Louis, one in Los Angeles...
One problem is that most of Marvy's potential customers already have perfectly good Marvy poles. Production is down from 5,000 poles a year to something under 1,000, at $335 for the highest-priced model. Does this mean that the William Marvy Co. is as shaky as...
The Cubans happily surrounded Felix with two 6-ft. 11-in. mates and a slew of other flag poles hovering around 6-ft. 6-in. They weren't skinny either; the first time I saw them, I thought we were playing a bunch of shotputters.