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favorite cut was and still is what he calls a “medium hair cut.” Watts never minded doing long hair. “My wife was a beautician and I used to help her out real often. So when long hair came into popularity. I knew what to do with it." he explained.
In 1968, a serious automobile accident interrupted his barbering for a year. After his recovery, he .sold the red brick building in ^Washington and relocated, first in the Washington post office basement for a few months and then in Amissville. Ten years later, he came back to Washington, this time as the right-hand side instead of the left side neighbor of the Rappahannock News.
Steady Customers
With this last move, half his Amissville customers followed him down the road, according to Watts. They joined a list of regulars, some from Culpeper before the war and a few from even earlier, who’ve remained faithful to Watts and his scissors.
His engaging conversation and twinkling eyes topped by one of his best advertisements— his own painstakingly groomed coiffure—have brought a little army of regulars back to his barber chair again and again.
“Some of my customers
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