By Bob Warfield.
Devastating News: Marie sold her shop! Glad I called from Virginia for an appointment, kept this Saturday; and what shall I do for a haircut hence?
For 32 years Marie has stood behind Lakewood’s most admirable and debauched heads to trim and dress nature’s excess while administering radiant therapy to worlds beneath at her “Mane Street” barbery. Alas, in exceptional fashion of her service to our hirsute and social requirement she must away this Christmas Eve to gift the caring devotion her ailing husband now requires.
For all the years, the stories, tender mercies shared and first ascents, summits climbed through adversity to new light, and for the heads and haircuts too, THANK YOU Marie.
To the faint accelerating Harley’s rumble, as in a distant departure to sunset dreams, a thousand well-trimmed grateful guys, five to ninety-five, salute and wave their affection and best farewell to whatever future may welcome you in the years to come.
Eloquently put, Bob, your thoughts are shared by me and countless others. For over 20 years my hair and head have been subject to Marie’s skills and therapy. I, too, will miss them both as we wish Marie and her husband the best in Florida.
Weird, I feel like I will miss her too, although never having gotten a haircut there.
Wish I had.
Nicely put Bob.
It’s not just guys who have benefited from Marie’s services. I’ve been a Mane Street patron for over 20 years and will miss this Marvelous Maven! I wish you well Marie.
I too have history inside Marie Mendoza’s tonsorial parlor with both Marie and her former sidekick, Gary.
Marie not only gave me many a haircut, she cut all of them on each visit.
Since Marie and I are both on the East Coast now, Marie in Florida and I in Delaware, I will see if she might meet me half way for a post retirement haircut. Heh, heh, heh.
Joseph Boyle – Former Lakewood Resident 51 years
Marie will remember me and my wife. Marie was my barber and I asked her to shave my wife’s head since her hair was falling out from chemo. Marie could not believe I videotaped the whole thing and we were joking around the whole time.