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 ...

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 ...

In this March 5, 2010 file photo Howard Rettenmeier, who has cut hair for 55 years at the Uptown Barber Shop, stands by the barber pole at his Dyersville, Iowa, shop. ST. PAUL, Minn. — Friendly ...

Barbers and beauticians are splitting hairs over an iconic image: the swirling red, white and blue striped pole that often stands outside a barber shop. Barbers in several states are proposing ...

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 ...

FOND DU LAC - Walk through the doors of Central Barber on North Main Street and you get hit with that “Andy of Mayberry” feel. Red Mullenbach has been cutting hair in Fond du Lac for more than 50 ...

What's red, white and blue, and has spun its way into controversy? It's the barber pole. The pole sometimes rotates outside the shops of cosmetologists or hair stylists who don't employ barbers.

After much debate over what is and is not a sign, city commissioners voted unanimously to ask the city attorney to write an amendment to the code to allow barber poles. “In my opinion,” Commissioner ...

An item that can fetch a lot of money in pawn shops has become the object of a series of thefts in Seattle. No, it’s not laptops, iPods or stereos. It’s barber poles. Three barber shops in Ballard and ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Friendly arguments aren't hard to find in a barbershop, but try cutting in on a hallowed symbol -- that red, white and blue pole -- and it may be time to hide the scissors. Steeped ...