Arenas' family tree, too: four of his five brothers are also barbers, plus nine other family members, including his granddaughter. "We're hoping the best."īarbering runs in Mr. "We'll always be thankful to Louis for bringing us in, for being an extremely good boss, patient and unselfish," he said. Those barbers relied on Golden Shears to build up a loyal clientele "where people stayed like no other," he said. Arenas at Golden Shears before launching his own shop, Mr. Like famed 49ers and Stanford football coach Bill Walsh, Louis Arenas' "coaching tree" has generated a wide network of professional barbers.Īll four of the barbers at the new Menlo Park Barber Shop will have come from Golden Shears, and the owner of Moses Hair Styling on Crane St. Arenas, he said, is the "Bill Walsh of barbering." Though Golden Shears is closing, the full-service approach to barbering the shop signified will be carried on by the numerous local barbers who began their careers at Golden Shears, said Mr. Wilbur said there are no current plans for Golden Shears location. Though, she added, "It was his decision to close." "I don't think he could afford it, sadly enough," she said. Property manager Anne Wilbur, of Wilbur Properties, said that Mr. Valero learned the new patisserie Mademoiselle Colette was paying a premium per square foot, he said he "knew by then that (Golden Shears) couldn't survive as a barber shop in such a big space." However, after its neighbor, the Sugar Shack, closed and Mr. Thanks to the downturn in the economy at the time and vacancies on Santa Cruz Avenue, the owners negotiated a three-year lease until 2011, and then a five-year lease that was set to end in May 2016. There had been signs for years that the space was too big, starting when the building was sold to Wilbur Properties in 2008, Mr. Valero, who worked at Golden Shears for 14 years. Arenas started Golden Shears, Santa Cruz Avenue was full of "mom and pop" small businesses, said Mr. Valero, is a reflection of what is happening in Silicon Valley, as increases in the cost of retail space drive out small businesses. in Menlo Park, and the other, Ray Lasoya, will join the barbers at the Menlo Park Barber Shop, according to Mr. Of the three barbers who remained at Golden Shears, two will relocate to Hair Mill, at 1050 Chestnut St.
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