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Rappahannock original
When that episode first aired ^ut of Los Angeles in 1967, John Eubanks had been cutting hair in Rappahannock a dozen years already, and had owned the Sperryville Barbershop nearly a decade.
Lifelong Rappahannock resident, John Eubanks graduated from the old Rappahannock High School schoolhouse in Washington. His roots here go back before his birth; “My mother was from here, my father came from Carroll County,” Eubanks recalled.
When Eubanks was a child, Marion Watts had the barbershop in Washington to the right of the Rappahannock News building. Watts took the young Eubanks under his wing: “I went to the barbershop as a shoeshine boy back when I was 12 years old,” Eubanks related. From ‘49 to ‘55 he worked for Watts here in Washington. “Haircuts were $.35 and $.50, $.50 for adults and $.35 for kids under 12,” he remembered. “When I was in the eighth grade, Mr. Watts said let me teach you how to cut hair”. So began a close bond between the two. Eubanks even lived in the same house as Watts for awhile as a teenager, while working at the barbershop and at his mother’s restaurant.
Watts began building the Sperryville shop in ‘55 and Eubanks started cutting hair there in ‘58. He recalled. “I bought the shop from him
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