Barber Shop

If you have time to wait go see these guys. If you are impatient go somewhere else. They do a great job but man are they slow! My old barber use to cut 4 guys hair in an hour. These guys are lucky to cut 1 guy in that time. Guys, please do appointments at least a couple days a week for us impatient guys. I want to stay…

Always a smile and always an honest effort to please. Unusually laid back and gentle, all three do an excellent to fantastic job, and at a fair price. After two years I still find myself looking forward to going here, and every visit expands and cements the relationships. Excellent wifi makes the often 20 – 40 minute wait seem to fly by and their grooming experience makes it very worthwhile.

Dentist and barbers… once you find one you never change. I’ve been a customer of Shawn since before he owned the shop. Simply put he is the best!

Shawn and the guys know what they’re doing. Good old-​fashioned service and killer cuts.

walk in and have a seat. They are busy for a reason!

These guys are methodical and make sure your hair gets cut the way you want. Jerry cut mine, but I suspect all the barbers there are solid.

The place is simply great. My grand father of 91 is from Iowa and he’s blow away by how good of a job they do.

I’ve been here three times now for cuts. Once I left without getting anything done because the line was too long. I’ve been but by both of the guys on the ends (Bobby and … ?). Both guys were friendly and could chat you up about many different topics. Especially area sports though. I liked my haircuts. Everything was great. I wish they took appointments.

Great service, great atmosphere, great barbers. Friendly customer service and they do exactly what you ask. Any style any haircut they can do it. Three barbers at the shop and all of them are great! I went in for a second time and they remembered me and my haircut. This shop is getting more popular by word of mouth. That’s because these guys know how to cut hair plus they are excellent at customer service. This is my new shop!

Such a great haircut! My son is almost 3, it was his first time getting a cut from a barber and I’m so glad he did! Shawn was great!

Love this place! My father and I have been coming here for years. Shawn is a true professional at his trade. I have always been satisfied with my hair cuts and love the compliments I get after seeing him. I highly suggest the straight razor shave and don’t forget about the complimentary beer.

On our way to Bodega Bay, we stopped in Santa Rosa. We were getting some camping supplies and I got a haircut. My hair looked good, but not too styled, which is just the way I like it. The environment was very relaxing. It would be a good place to hang out and bring a crossword puzzle.

Old School is the Best School. Just moved back to SR from SF. Tough to find a good barber let alone a great barber. This is the place! All young guys who will be cutting my hair for years to come. I sat in Bobby’s chair. Excellent barber, great local guy. I have been having my neck straight bladed since I was a kid (difficult to find anyone who even uses a straight razor) Bobby was smoother with the razor than Any previous barber. The rest of the haircut was exactly what I asked.
The shop is a clean, well lit, old school shop. Comfy chairs, magazines and conversation. I know they take drop-​ins and not sure if they take appointments. Prices were average for SR and a bargain for the cut you get. Keep up the great work gentlemen. You are doing your profession proud!

Based on a friends recommendation u decided to have my first straight razor shave.
It was awesome. Sean took his time and made sure it was done to perfection.
It was very relaxing. I loved the conversations that seem to keep going depending of who’s in the shop at any given time.
I’ll be back for sure.

My husband loves this place. He says it’s chicken soup for the soul. Bobby cut his hair and gave him a shave and he looks great. Couldn’t be happier and the place is very nostalgic.

To me, the barber shop experience includes waiting your turn while chatting with the other customers, reading the paper and relaxing. When you make it into one of the 3 barber chairs, the barber should not only be excellent at cutting your hair, but should also be an excellent conversationalist. There should be no appointments or schedules, and no one should be yapping on their cell phone or in a rush.
I find that all of this can be had at the Barber Shop. The décor is certainly «old school» and the barbers are a credit to their craft. Sean is the undisputed flat-​top master. The job is finished with hot foam and a real straight razor.
You won’t be disappointed.

I’m always apprehensive about trying a new barber because you never really know what you’re going to get. I just moved to the area from Sacramento and I had the same barber for 2 years, but thought it would be ridiculous to drive back to Sac to just get a haircut, so I went to Unilocal.I saw these guys on Unilocal and figured I would give them a try since they had a perfect score… I should have drove to Sac.
I gave them 2 stars because the guy was really nice and talkative, but the haircut was nothing even close to what I asked for. I told him I wanted an Ivy League style hair cut. He looked a little puzzled when I told him that, which isn’t a big deal because maybe he just hasn’t heard the term before. So I said have you ever seen the guys in the show Mad Men and how they have a comb over to the side. He gave me the impression he knew what I was talking about. Twenty minutes later I had a haircut that was short enough to spike and looked nothing like what I asked for. IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOUR CUSTOMER IS ASKING FOR, ASK THEM MORE QUESTIONS TILL YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WANT!
And maybe I’m being a little to critical since I had the same expectations from these guys that I had from a barber that cut my hair for two years, but I really didn’t think my haircut was a hard one to figure out. And I get the impression if you have a pretty straight forward haircut in mind, these guys will do a great job, but if you need anything that’s somewhat trendy or modern — go somewhere else!

Old Skool Barber Shop — all the Barbers do a great job. A Guy doesn’t have to pay $ 50 bucks to look great! Haircuts are just $ 20. They even do straight razor shaves. Step back in time and enjoy.

This shop has an old fashioned feel, ran by a couple of great guys. No BS, No gimmicks, just a consistently great hair cut, at a fair price, by genuinely good guys. It’s the kind of shop my grandfather took me to when I was a kid.
Shawn the owner is awesome, he’s not only reviving the near extinct barber shop, he’s reviving the sentiment and emotions tied to that old time experience.

I moved to Santa Rosa eleven years ago and had to say farewell to my Central Valley barber of nearly 25 years. (135 miles is a bit too far to drive, one way, for a haircut.)
After several trials and errors, I found my new barber at the Village Barber Shop where Jim (God rest his soul) served me well until his death a few years back. I wasn’t «over the top» happy with Jim’s other two cohorts, so I started my search again.
I had a heck of a time trying to find a barber who knew how to cut a decent flat top. I went to at least six barbers, one of whom was a complete bigot (and I told him so) and I even had one hair stylist who used a level on my head! Now that was strange; it made me feel like a construction project.
I then remembered that during my time at Jim’s Village Barber Shop, a youngish Rock-​a-​billy type guy with tattoos and dark wavy hair like James Dean by the name of Shawn McConlogue, would fill in on the third chair. He seemed to do a decent job and I even had him cut my hair once when Jim was not available. So I decided to set out to find him.
I found him at «The Barber Shop» on Montgomery Drive, just east of Brookwood Avenue. It’s located on the triangular piece of property where Cocas Diko started their business, directly across the street from the Salvation Army’s donation center and the Silvercrest Retirement highrise.
I asked Shawn to give me a flat top and he proceeded to cut the best flat top I’ve ever had. Since that day, I haven’t even once considered going to anyone else; he is now MY barber.
Recently, Shawn had an opportunity to buy the shop and so he did. He has a retro-​vision of what his barber shop should be and how it should look and the transition has begun, slowly yet surely. From the black and white checkered tile floors to the cream colored walls, two antique barber poles, and a few Norman Rockwell prints straight from the covers of the Saturday Evening Post on the wall, this place has great bones for becoming the barbershop of days gone by.
This is not a stylistic fru-​fru type of place. It’s a kind of hangout where a man can go for a shave and a haircut, and while waiting, can engage in political conversation with other guys, watch television, or find guy-​appropriate reading material.
A shave and a haircut is no longer six bits, but $ 17 for a regular cut and $ 15 for a senior cut is a bargain in today’s economy. The shave … oh my God! The shave is as close to heaven on earth that a guy dares to go.
The only down-​side, if there is one, is that Shawn does not take appointments. For a busy guy like me, appointments would be nice, but his «first come, first served» approach gives me pause to sit down and relax from the hectic frenzy of my day if someone is already in the chair when I arrive.
As for the barber poles, the one that stands in the corner is the one that graced the corner of Jim’s Village Barber Shop, given to Jim by a group of elementary students nearly 30 years ago when Jim gave free haircuts to school children of low-​income families in San Francisco. So it seems a part of Jim is still around and if he could see what Shawn is doing, I think he’d approve.