Longtime Bismarck Barber Closing Up Shop

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Bismarck barbershop that has been in business almost 60 years is closing.

The Bismarck Tribune reports Ron and Janet Baker are shuttering the Plaza Barbershop on Sept. 18.

The Bakers say they are retiring and moving to Spearfish, South Dakota to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter.

The barbershop at Arrowhead Plaza opened in 1955. The Bakers have run it since 1987, after Ron was laid off from a coal mining job, and his wife left her banking job to join him in the business.

Retired judge Bob Wefald says he's been going to the Plaza Barbershop since 1970. He called the closing "an end of an era."

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