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building there and 1 tore that down. All the rest of this was just hog lot.” he remembered. sweeping his hand around the apartment that currently serves double duty as a barbershop.
Tonsorial Artist
At that first Washington barbershop. Watts instructed another generation in the art of cutting hair. "1 taught seven or eight boys around here how to barber while they ' were in high school,” he said. Two still ply their trade in Front Royal while John Eubank operates his business in Sperryville.
"Watts was a very, very fine instructor,” said Eubank, recalling that he started as a shoe shine boy in 1949 while still in elementary school and then moved up under his old teacher’s watchful eye to give shaves, shampoos and finally haircuts.
"With all my experience now. I can say he’s one of the best I’ve ever seen.” Eubank continued, adding that he has attended seminars and classes under other barbers. "Watts is better than any of them—everything has to be just right before he’ll turn a customer loose."
Watts prospered during the,’60s. a time when longhaired styles for men drove many barbers out of business. Although his
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