NewsDecember 31, 2015
Barber to retire after 68 years
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A 90-year-old Rhode Island barber is putting down his clippers after 68 years. Tony Manzi has cut five generations of hair at Manzi's Barber Shop in Cranston. The man known as Tony the Barber is set to retire today. Glaucoma has blurred vision in one of his eyes. He wears reading glasses for close shaves around the ears. He describes the bowl cut as "just about the ugliest thing" he has seen and said he doesn't understand modern "novelty" haircuts such as the Mohawk...Associated Press
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CRANSTON, R.I. -- A 90-year-old Rhode Island barber is putting down his clippers after 68 years. Tony Manzi has cut five generations of hair at Manzi's Barber Shop in Cranston. The man known as Tony the Barber is set to retire today. Glaucoma has blurred vision in one of his eyes. He wears reading glasses for close shaves around the ears. He describes the bowl cut as "just about the ugliest thing" he has seen and said he doesn't understand modern "novelty" haircuts such as the Mohawk.
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