ST. PAUL, Minn.—Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in ...

Pretty junky. But the legendary barber pole is made by Marvy, a company still around that's out of St. Paul, Minnesota. Their poles are pretty much exactly how they made them before. William Marvy ...

Barber poles haven’t changed much in the intervening years, but Marvy has evolved into a very different company. For nearly half a century, Marvy has been the only commercial manufacturer in the ...

The modern barber pole was born. Many of today's poles feature rotating, light-up cylinders and weather-resistant plastic and steel parts. Most of these poles probably came from the William Marvy ...

Today, only one of those trade symbols is still widely used: the barber pole, whose enduring presence is largely due to the William Marvy Co., America's last barber pole manufacturer. William ...

Parnello got in touch with the CEO of the barber supplier William Marvy Co., who agreed to polish and repair the pole for Uncle Joe free of charge. "Uncle Joe's barber shop is a place where ...