Posts: 3387 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
posted 12-02-2016 02:44 PM
Apollo 9 astronauts Jim McDivitt and Dave Scott get a haircut, three days before launch in March 1969. Also in the barber's chair are backup crewmembers Al Bean and Dick Gordon.
Jonnyed Member
Posts: 396 From: Dumfries, VA, USA Registered: Aug 2014
posted 12-02-2016 06:46 PM
Was this a barbershop on a NASA compound, a local shop, or at a nearby military base?
Ken Havekotte Member
Posts: 2915 From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard Registered: Mar 2001
posted 12-02-2016 06:56 PM
It's at KSC on the first floor (Room 1251) of the center's headquarters building near the main lobby, operated by NASA Exchange. But the crew, of course, was in quarantine for the most part, even though the crew did manage to get around to certain areas of the space center such as the flight crew training building, the pad, and other needed-access facilities.
carmelo Member
Posts: 1047 From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia Registered: Jun 2004
posted 12-03-2016 06:05 PM
I want a crew cut 60s NASA style!
Jurg Bolli Member
Posts: 977 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Nov 2000
posted 12-03-2016 06:25 PM
Me too (if I had any hair left!).
micropooz Member
Posts: 1512 From: Washington, DC, USA Registered: Apr 2003
posted 12-03-2016 07:57 PM
When I was 6 years old, I got a flattop haircut so I could look like Gus!
Philip Member
Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001
posted 12-05-2016 09:40 AM
Military haircut = Flattop or Buzz cut.
Jonnyed Member
Posts: 396 From: Dumfries, VA, USA Registered: Aug 2014
posted 12-06-2016 08:51 PM
Ah, there's nothing like the old hot lather shaving cream, straight razor shaves — along with the high and tight haircuts.
Those were the days...
mikepf Member
Posts: 441 From: San Jose, California, USA Registered: Mar 2002
posted 12-07-2016 03:44 PM
When I was a kid and my dear old Uncle Phil would see me after I got a haircut, he'd say "Mike, did you tell the barber to go once around the block?"
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3208 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 01-09-2017 10:45 AM
There is actually film footage of this. I see backup crewmember Dick Gordon, but not Al Bean.
Jonnyed Member
Posts: 396 From: Dumfries, VA, USA Registered: Aug 2014
posted 01-09-2017 06:59 PM
That video is great. Those were the days!
I noticed in the video that one of the barbers had a tattoo on his forearm and that reminded me that back then only boatswain mates and barbers* had tattoos!
*(and that was because your barber was probably a former boatswains mate)
posted 12-02-2016 02:44 PM
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