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Barber Shop in Walt Disney World Does Brisk Business.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2002
By Robert Johnson, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 3--Nick Sillinger has traveled 1,000 miles or so to sit in the antique barber chair attended by Michal Marach.
This is the 10-year-old suburban Chicagoan's sixth trip to Orlando's Harmony Barber Shop, where Marach makes him laugh by wielding giant pink play scissors, spraying water from a hair spritzer and spiking his new do with washable red gel -- topped by a sprinkling of glitter.
But that's not the first hint that this isn't a typical barbershop. That would be its location: tucked away in a corner of Main Street in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
The shop, which opened in 1975, is a tourist attraction that doubles as a working hair...
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