4.9
Google rating
Out of five. That is the average across every review currently on the shop's Google listing.
No.001
ShopWoodland Hills Barber
Opened1967
AppointmentNot required
Fifty-nine years of writing the same thing on the ticket.
Haircut. Beard. Shave. The list has barely changed since this shop opened in Woodland Hills in 1967, and neither has the arrangement: you come in, you sit down, somebody who has done this for a living cuts your hair properly, and you leave.
Call the shop(818) 347-1919
No online booking. No form to fill in. A phone and a door, same as always.
Woodland Hills, California
A shop that opened the year the first Super Bowl was played is still open on a weekday afternoon.
Counterfoil
What survives fifty-nine years on one street
Woodland Hills Barber Shop opened in 1967. Consider what that means in practical terms. It has outlasted the arrival and departure of half the businesses on any block you can name in the west Valley. It was here before Warner Center. It was here for every recession since Vietnam. It was here through the years when men stopped getting haircuts and through the years when they started again.
None of that happens through marketing. Small shops survive one way, which is that people keep walking back in. Somebody got a good cut, told a friend, brought a son, kept coming for thirty years. Multiply that by six decades and you get a business with a 4.9 rating and almost two hundred written reviews across Google and Yelp.
What a shop like this has never had is a working website. Anyone searching for a barber in Woodland Hills today finds a list of newer shops with better photographs and shorter histories. This page exists to fix that one specific problem.
The oldest barber shop on the block is usually the best one. It just rarely says so anywhere a phone can find it.
Carbon copy
What changed since 1967, and what did not
Booking
You walked in. If there was a line, you waited and read whatever was on the table.
You walk in. There are apps for this now, and this shop still does not need one.
Finding it
A neighbor told you, or you found it in the phone book under B.
You search on a phone, and for fifty-nine years the shop had nothing there to find. That is the only thing this page is trying to change.
The tools
Scissors, comb, clippers, a strop and a straight razor.
Scissors, comb, clippers, a strop and a straight razor. Better motors, same hands.
The wait
You talked to whoever was in the next chair about the Dodgers.
You look at your phone. The Dodgers conversation is still available on request.
The proof
Somebody's word, which was enough because everybody lived four blocks away.
A 4.9 average and 193 written reviews across Google and Yelp, which is the modern version of the same thing.
The job
Send a man back out looking like himself, only tidier.
No change recorded.
The ticket
Write up what you came in for
Tick what you want and it goes on the slip. There is nothing to submit and nobody is counting. It is here so you can walk in already knowing how to ask.
Woodland Hills Barber ShopEst. 1967
Nothing written up yet. Tick something on the left, or skip all of this and simply walk in and say it out loud.
AmountAsk at the chair
The figures
Two hundred people wrote it down without being asked
36
Google reviews
Left by customers on their own, with no card at the counter asking for them.
157
Yelp reviews
A second, larger pile of the same verdict, accumulated over years.
Figures as published on Google and Yelp. No review text is reproduced anywhere on this page, and none of it has been rewritten.
The duplicate
What the room looks like from the chair
Photography here stands in until the shop's own pictures are taken. Every image on this page is marked so it can be swapped out.
At the counter
Things people ask on the phone
Do I need an appointment?
No. Walk in. If there is a wait it is usually the length of one haircut, and there is somewhere to sit.
How long has this shop been here?
Since 1967. Same trade, same neighborhood, in the west San Fernando Valley.
Do you still do straight razor shaves?
Yes. Hot towel, lather, straight razor. Call ahead if you want one, because it takes longer than a haircut and it helps to know you are coming.
Do you cut kids' hair?
Yes. Bring the photo on your phone if there is a specific idea, and bring some patience if it is a first one.
What does it cost?
Ask when you call or when you sit down. This page deliberately does not quote prices it cannot keep current.
What are the hours?
Call (818) 347-1919 and ask. Hours on the internet go stale faster than anything else about a small shop, so the number is the honest answer.
