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have been coming to me for four generations,” he stated with justifiable pride. His star regular and oldest customer. Jack Campbell of Culpeper, got his first haircut from Watts in 1932 at one of Virginia’s Conservation Corps camps. With the true appreciation of a master craftsman. Watts noted that Campbell has “the prettiest white wavy hair you've ever seen in your life.”
Watts regularly runs into faces from the past. Once he had a traveler drop in for a haircut while his car was being worked on at Merrill’s garage. The man mentioned he was from Massachusetts and Watts responded that he’d served on a battleship named after the state.
'He said his son had too that he ran a print shop on the ship. 1 stuck out my hand and said ‘Glad to meet you. Mr. Pfieffer. I had the barbershop next door’,” Watts recalled. Obviously, the print shop sailor must have talked about the barber from around the corner because. Watts reported, the sailor's dad replied "I know who you are! You’re Watts!” Chuckling as he recalled anecdote after anecdote in a down home version of Mr. Roberts and Navy battles
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