FARMINGTON – Junior Turner cut his last head of hair Friday before turning the keys to Turner’s Tendercuts over to the new owner, Heidi Boyce of Farmington.
Members of Farmington’s Downtown Business and Professional Association gathered to acknowledge not only Turner’s 40 years in business in downtown Farmington but also his participation in the association.
Turner told the gathering he had been a member and on the association’s decorating committee since about 1974. It’s a chore he enjoys and will continue to help with, he said.
Asked for his plans Saturday and beyond, Turner said he will have more time to work on antique cars, relax, hunt and fish.
“Forty years does not seem like it,” Turner said.
The barbershop has been on the eastern end of Broadway since 1945 and was originally owned by Frank Howatt. The shop is the only one in Franklin County that can boast of having a real, spinning barber pole, Turner said. The pole was stolen 10 years ago, but Howatt’s grandson, a plumber, spotted one when working on a property in West Farmington and recognized it as being his grandfather’s.
“I didn’t press charges but just wanted to have it back,” Turner said. “So it spent three or four months in another location but it came back.”
He will leave it for the new owner who accepted the keys to the shop from Realtor Adrian Harris.
Boyce will begin her stint in the shop at 7 a.m. Tuesday. Now called Broadway Barbershop, it will have two full-time and two part-time employees including her co-workers from Dick’s Barber Shop, Jackie Tardif and Paula Raymond. She will make a few changes and continue business as usual.
Dick’s Barber Shop, also on Broadway, won’t be empty, said owner Wilma Hobbs. The 44-year-old shop will continue as Mona Lisa Knowles becomes the sole proprietor.
Knowles has worked for Turner’s Tendercuts for the past 14 years. She will open Dick’s Barber Shop on Tuesday morning for regular business hours.
Hobbs is pleased to continue the heritage of her late husband’s business, she added.
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