Neukirch has seen it all
Barber spends 30 years at UNL
By Doug Isakson
Staff Reporter
In the fall of 1959, when the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln opened
a barber shop in the basement of the
Nebraska Union, Elmer Neukirch
became its first barber.
In some wavs, the University Bar
ber Shop hasn’t changed much since.
The same mirrors and the same bar
ber chairs are still there. And after 30
years, so is Neukirch.
But some things have changed,
Neukirch said.
In his 30 years as the manager of
the University Barber Shop,
Neukirch has seen the price of a hair
cut go from about $ 1.75 to $7. He has
seen the shop go from a five-chair
operation to just one.
And he’s seen hairstyles go in
every direction.
“When we first came here,” he
said of the 1959 hairstyles, “it was all
flat tops, crew cuts and ivy leagues.”
He said the long hairstyles of the
1960s hit the UNL campus in 1969.
Today, the styles are more difficult to
categorize.
After serving in the Merchant
Marine in 1944 and 1945, Neukirch
attended barber school, worked two
years as an apprentice, and then
opened his own shop in Tecumseh.
Five years later, he moved to Lin
coln, where he worked in the Drive
In Barber Shop, which was located
where the federal building now
stands.
i moveo to Lincoln witn tne in
tention of going to college,”
Neukirch said. “Bull went to work in
the shop and established a clientele,
and in the process of my family in
creasing, I couldn’t afford to go to
college.”
He stayed there for five years and
finally came to the University Barber
Shop.
Neukirch said the shop was
opened when ROTC training was
mandatory for all male UNL stu
dents. When the shop first opened, he
said, the 2,000 students enrolled in
the program all needed frequent hair
cuts.
At the time, there were five chairs
in operation. One of Neukirch’s as
sistants was Frank Kuhn, who now is
assistant director of the union. Kuhn
said that during the peak years, the
shop had 25 customers a day, six days
a week until the ROTC requirement
was dropped in 1964.
Neukirch said business has gotten
slower since then, not only because
the ROTC program was dropped, but
also because of the shop’s location.
‘‘Let’s put it this way,” he said.
‘‘We’re getting along, but with our
location, we’re pretty isolated.
Neukirch also said students do not
have the spending money they did
five years ago.
After cutting hair for more than 35
years, Neukirch said he still has no
idea what the next trend in hairstyles
will be.
‘‘There’ll be long hair and short
hair,” he said, ‘‘and everybody is
going to do their own thing, you know
what I mean?”
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Area 1, southeast of Pound.
Another 39 reserved stalls for stu
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