ST. PAUL, Minn.—Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces ...

Barber shops don't exactly have a hard time standing out on the streetscape, and it's largely thanks to the mesmerizing poles that spin just outside of their door fronts. But where'd that barber pole ...

Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces inside its glass ...

WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian Institution has received a bit of red, white and blue Americana from St. Paul, Minn. – a pair of barber poles manufactured by the William Marvy Co. The Marvy company, the ...

(FORTUNE Small Business) – Time was you could glance down Main Street and identify which business was which simply by the symbol outside the shop. The local pharmacist would have a mortar and pestle; ...

Our featured item for today is recognizable by any male who has had his hair cut at a barber shop. Just outside the door, spinning very slowly on its stand, is the barber pole. Except for the shop ...

For years, spinning red, white and blue poles could always be spotted outside neighborhood barbershops. But in the city of Thornton, the poles may soon be little more than quaint artifacts in antique ...

LAKE OSWEGO -- Tyler Atkinson, who has run the venerable Country Square Barber Shop for the past two years, came to work today to his classic red-white-and-blue barber pole ripped from the outside ...