Getting a haircut anda little Moore By Susan Snyder illie Moore may not remember exactly how many barbershops he has had on Ogden’s 25" Street, but he vividly recalls why he left one of them. The incident happened several decades ago, when Moore was working in the same storefront he now uses on the northwest corner of Lincoln Avenue and 25" Street. “They killed a guy right upstairs, here. They dropped him down.on the pavement out there, and he sounded like a bag of dirt,” Moore said. “I see that, and guess what. The next morning -- you think the Frontrunner can run fast —I was down to Salt Lake faster than Frontrunner can run, I was so scared.” It’s a great story and is one visitors to Moore’s shop likely will hear, if they hang around long enough. Moore’s stories are as much a part of 25" Street’s history as the old buildings that line its sidewalks or the artifacts stored down the street in the museums at Ogden Union Station. If you haven’t heard at least one of them, you could almost be considered culturally illiterate. Moore has been cutting hair along the Wasatch Front since about 1948. He 6) (Above) Moore’s Barber Shop circa 1993, located on 26th Street behind Bank of Utah. (Right) Moore continues to cut hair on a regular basis. A recent Saturday morning found Dave Cromwell in Moore’s chair. (Below Right) The hands of a barber. Over the past 60 years, these hands have cut a lot of hair along the Wasatch front. Steve Conlin Photos left his home in Louisiana at the age of 9 when he went to work for a Jewish couple, who eventually moved to Salt Lake City. He attended barber college here, but also attended Grambling State University back in Louisiana, where his basketball-playing skills earned him a yearlong stint with the Harlem Globetrotters. So why did he stay in Utah? “My wife is from here. And when I met her, well, I liked her pretty good,” Moore said, “I was alone, and she and her family were so nice to. me. I thought they were my family.” Moore figures he has had six shops on 25" Street since he and his wife settled here. That’s not all of the shops he has had in Ogden and Salt Lake City. During the mid-1990s he operated two shops in Ogden. He also worked in a couple down in Salt Lake City and has had shops in the Union Stations in both Ogden and Salt Lake City. An old red leather and chrome chair that sits in the corner of his current shop is from his very first shop, which was in downtown Salt Lake City. He doesn’t - use it anymore. The chair and a small © glass cabinet on the counter are all that remain from those early days —except for the stories, of course. Moore has a lot of those. | | His first shop on 25" Street sat about four doors west of his current one. His customers included Ogden’s public officials and business elite, who would arrive at 6 a.m. for a shave and haircut before beginning the day’s work. Moore says he didn’t need to lock his shop in those days. But that often meant he might have to shoo out a few rowdies left over from the previous night, before his day customers arrived. “Over there was the black side,” he said, pointing to the south side of the street, “and all this side was the white side. But once everybody got drunk there was no difference in the sides.” One story that still makes Moore chuckle occurred in 1965. A white man from Mississippi came in for a shave and haircut — coincidentally, on the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading his famous march to Montgomery, Ala. The customer was reclining in the barber chair with a steamy towel covering his face, and Moore was sharpening his straight razor on its Our Beat ts the Heart of Ogden leather strap. And all the while, Moore’s radio was broadcasting King’s speech. “T had my radio on loud, and was sharpening that razor — ‘whoop, whoop’ — like that. And I could see him eeeease that towel off his face, and he said, “You either cut that radio off or stop sharpening that razor, because you got me scared as hell.’ ” Moore shares his memories with anyone who asks, while the two women www. Ogden COM Seis Bae ae Se SE NSie OE aa a 7 EP OT SNE EEE he describedas being homeless came in offering goodies purchased from the bakery outlet up the street. He and his coworkers were relieved to see her. “That lady usually comes by every day. But we hadn’t seen her for three weeks, and we were getting worried,” Moore said. “I help people up and down the street, and I told her I’d get her a good room, But she won’t accept it. She always says, ‘I’m OK. I want to live just like I am.’ ” Moore’s perspective on downtown Ogden is a little different from that of younger business owners and those who sell it and its sometimes-seedy past as a tourist destination. “T’ve seen it go and I’ve seen it come. It was pretty good, and I really liked Ogden during that time,” Moore said. “But we don’t want 25" Street to be like it was.” He turns 86 on Pioneer Day (“The same birthday as Karl Malone,” he (Above) Willie Moore tells one of his many recollections of Historic 25th Street. At the age _of 86 Moore still comes to work almost every day. (Left) It is easy to tell if Moore has made it to work. Just look for his 1978 Cadillac. It has become as much a fixture as Moore himself. “I’ve seen it go and I’ve seen it come. It was pretty good.” golf — two of Moore’s passions. He and his wife Betty were among the charter members of the booster club for the Utah Stars, the basketball team that preceded the Jazz. They would round up the community’s children and for 50 cents each take them by the busload down to the games in Salt Lake City. © Also an accomplished golfer, Moore says he keeps most of his trophies tucked away in storage. “My wife made me take them out of the-house,” he said. “She called them who also cut hair in his shop take customers under their capable clippers. One of them, Judy Archuleta, has worked for Moore for almost’30 years. She cuts hair only a few hours a week now because she hurt her back a couple of years ago. But she enjoys coming ‘dust catchers.’ ” He has given away many sets of golf clubs over the years, hoping to get young people interested in the game. He into the shop and and his wife have been on the citizen seeing Moore. advisory boards and boards of directors “‘He’s just a wonderful person,” for dozens of community organizations. Archuleta said. Helping each other is just something Talk in Moore’s shop doesn’t always revolve around the good old days. More — people are supposed to do, Moore says. While Moore talked, a woman whom likely, it drifts toward basketball or www.Ogden Our Beat is the Heart of Ogden -Willie Moore- COM notes) and admits he spends more time socializing that cutting hair, these days. Still, longtime customers can always count on him for their haircuts — right up to the end. Moore says he works with the local mortuaries and does them free for clients after they pass on. He figures he has cut several generations of heads in the same family. For some clients, Moore has given them their first, and last, haircuts. | Passersby will know Moore is in if his 1978 red Cadillac is parked along Lincoln Avenue: Look for it after 9 a.m., most days. He owns a pair of nice Mercedes Benz sedans, but says he doesn’t like to flaunt his success. “T don’t drive them down here because people see them and say, ‘He don’t need no more money,” and go off to some other shop,” Moore said. “All of this comes from hard, hard, hard. The way I started out was hard.” “T don’t have to work. I just come down here now so my wife can have some peace,” he said. “And I can see everybody and enjoy myself. That’s why I come down here.” Hancinc Up His Scissors eset descend SAAL PNET SID. he By MARK cy Sapa 91-year-old Ogden barber is leaving the own he loves Standard-Examiner staff wat FSB AER GDEN — Willie Moore loves this town. 7 “T think Ogden is the greatest place,’ Moore said Tuesday, sitting in one of the barber chairs at his “Historic 25th Street shop. “This is where I made my living, where I met my wife. Make sure you tell people that Ogden is the place.” Yes, Moore loves Ogden. And judging by the steady stream of visitors stopping by to see him this week, that feeling is mutual. “T ain’t never had so many good people in my life come by,” Moore said. The 91-year-old barber, who has been a fixture in downtown Ogden for decades, will soon be leaving his beloved Junction City for the East Coast. His wife of 65 years, local community leader Betty Moore, died see MOORE | Page 5A BRIANA SCROGGINS/Standard-Examiner Willie Moore (left) jokes with some of his longtime clients Tuesday while Frank Andrew Ortega cuts Julio Dominguez’s hair at Moore’s Barber Shop on Historic 25th Street in Ogden. With the recent passing of his wife, Moore, who has been described as a legend and staple of Ogden for more than 50 years, is moving in with his daughter in Maryland. gent athiete Moore Nov. 19, and now that Moore is alone, he’s moving to Maryland. “My thing was, as long as they’re together, we can leave them here together,” said his daughter, Carol Moore Scott. But now that her mother is gone, Scott, who grew up in Ogden and was the first black cheerleader at Ogden High School, will take her father back to Fort Washington, Md., just outside Washington, D.C., where she works as a consultant. “He doesn’t like it,” Scott admits of the move. “He doesn’t want to leave Ogden. He says, ‘I’ve been here all my life, I can take care of myself.’ But I don’t feel guilty about this, because I “ know I’m doing what’s best for him.” As word has spread about Moore leaving, all sorts of folks have been dropping by Moore’s Barber Shop, in the old Marion Hotel, to wish him well, take a photo, or perhaps get one final haircut. When they heard about Moore’s departure, Eddie and Cindy Simone, owners of the Kokomo Club on¥ttstori 25th Street, decided to throw him a party. “T wanted to honor him,” Cindy Simone said. “He deserves to be honored. He’s an icon, and a lot of people don’t know he’s leaving.” The festivities begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, at the club, 216 Historic 25th St., and will last, they say, as long as Moore can hold out. The Simones say everyone’s invited — well, everyone age 21 and older. After all, “It is a bar,” Cindy Simone says. “But the kids can stand at the door and wish him well.” Oh, yes, and there will be cake. “We can’t call it a retirement party, because he thinks he’ll be back,” Cindy Simone said. “So it’s more of a congrats-on-60-plus-yearsin-the-barbering-business party.” Even at 91, the surprisingly spry Moore still cuts hair six days a week — although now just a few hours a day — at Moore’s Barber Shop on Historic 25th Street. And not just cutting hair. Telling stories. Plenty of them, about the time he played for the Harlem Globetrotters; or the hairraising tales about the haircuts he used to give the deceased at the local mortuaries; or the time a visiting Eleanor Roosevelt stuck her head inside the barber shop and said, “Please, you fellas, we need your vote”; or when, as a teenager, he took his $2.50 to a local brothel (the cheaper girls were $2, he’d saved $2.50) but got kicked out before he could spend his money. | “This street here would beat any street in the world,” Moore says. When Moore first started barbering, haircuts were 35 cents — not that he made anywhere near that much money. At the time, a haircut apprentice such as he earned a mere 15 cents a head. Today, Moore’s haircuts are still a deal. Ogden’s Ron Ross, known to countless Utahns as the children’s television character Fireman BRIANA SCROGGINS/Standard-Examiner Longtime Ogden barber Willie Moore Frank, dropped by for a haircut on Tuesday. When Moore finished, he told Ross, “That’ll be $5.” “He said he was only doing half a cut on me,” Ross said of the inexpensive haircut. Moore’s eyes well with tears when he talks of the passing of his wife. “It just killed me, it just killed me,” he kept repeating. “That is the saddest thing ever,” he told another wellwisher. “That is the saddest in Ogden wil Le thing you’ll ever see. It’s so. Moore, bu‘She believes Z sad, so sad.” And then he perks up and * they’ll ge OVer it.’ “ -bod talks about a dream he had Eve y te had him the other night. “Two nights ago, I was walking with my wife through a flower garden,” he said. “I woke up feeling so good.” The other barbers at the shop — Lisa Dow, Marsha Rodriguez and Frankie Ortega — say they’ll keep the shop open, and keep the Moore name. They’re even going to hang a photograph of Moore in the shop, so they’re always under his watchful eye. Through it all, Moore keeps telling everyone he’ll be back. When the young daughter of a friend learns Moore is moving away, she hugs him and begins to cry. “Oh yeah, you’ll see me again,” he assures her. “We’re gonna have lots of fun when I come back. ... I'll only be gone a little while.” Moore’s daughter acknowledges that many eS for 80 “This years,» Smile. ts scott nearer said With Sanat reporter My now. ” ark at 801-69 Ime 93-4272, Msaal a @s aE: oe tandard. net. Foll ow him on Twitter ae We se @S aaiman, Gis n Facebook at Ook. Con/ma rk.saql Determined O !, d _° a be . illie Moore still recalls, fondly, the day Eleanor Roosevelt dropped in to his barber shop, which was then on Ogden’s 25th Street. Not for a haircut. Just to visit. “She was in the Ben Lomond Hotel for something,” Willie said. “She told us, ‘You guys, don’t forget to vote,’ and we told her we wouldn’t.” _ Eleanor Roosevelt, right there on 25th Street. Someone ought to put up aplaque. Or at least move Willie back? Hey, there’s an idea. Good thing Willie already had it. Willie Moore started cutting hair o4 years ago in the corner shop of the Marion Hotel on 25th Street and Lincoln Avenue. Starting Monday, if all goes well this weekend, he is opening up there again. Same place. Same business. Maybe even some of the same heads to cut, although it has been 54 years. Eleanor probably won’t be back. Willie never went far. He’s had shops in half a dozen places around % e ee returns to his roots after cual! Trentelman Wasatch Rambler town, either because someone told him it would be better for business, or he ought to get away from “that street,” or he needed more space. He always did well, too. His haircuts were good, his prices were low, his chairs were the “leaking stuffing” variety, but nobody minded. But he always remembered that first shop, and it always nagged. “T just wanted to go back on 25th Street. I always wanted to go back,” he said last week as he trimmed a customer’s hair in his most recent former shop. Then, ever the businessman, he added, “because I thought there was more traffic there, too.” te he does open his door he will see a lot of heads walking by, but the street itself will be much different. When he opened there the first time, 25th Street had a very rough reputation. Willie alternates between defending its memory as a good street, a safe street, “not that bad, it was patrolled real well,” and saying that you could, sometimes, follow someone home by the trail of blood they left after the fight. “But I never did lock my door,” he said. “The police would call me and tell me to come down and close up. (People) would come in and take my tools, and sometimes I’d come down and there they was in there, cutting hair.”:3.; Which wasn’t so bad, but they were charging more than he did, too. “They’d get drunk and steal my tools, and the next day come back and try to sell them to me,” he said. “One guy said ‘Would you give me $5 for these nice tools?’ and I knew they were mine, so I said ‘How much does wine cost?’ and he said ‘69 cents,’ and I said ‘I’ll give you 69 cents and I won’t call the police on you,’ and he said ‘Give me 69 cents and Ill be all right.’” He remembers the Cutrubus family used to run a cigar store next door. They’re gone and the kids are in the car business. The hotels that rented by the hour are now antique shops, art galleries, or sushi bars. Even the bars where people tended to be found dead are gone. One, the old El Borracho, kitty-corner from the Marion, will soon be a ~ trendy gift shop. But still, Willie wants to go back. Can’t blame him. The man’s 80 years old; he hasn’t got too many barber shops left in him. Might as well make the last one the best. ““T gotta be there,” he said. “I was then and I gotta go back. I call it going back home.” Wasatch Rambler is the opinion of Charles Trentelman. You can reach him at 625-4232, or e-mail at ctrentelman@standard.net. -African-Americans made | and make contributions eg —™™ Betty Moore Guest Commentary My pride as a long, native-born lifeAf- rican-American Ogdenite, of the 1922 era, is reflected in ~ the enjoyment I find in reading of early vos. Ogden. = My chagrin rests in the fact that every year, racial and ethnic minorities mentioned as being attracted to becoming residents of early Ogden are confined to the Greck, Japanese, Chinese, with Italian and Mexican immigrants, no mention of the African-Americans who were and before. also here during the period © A careful rescarch of Utah and the history of the West, reveals that the Af- rican-American’s contribution to early Ogden’s work-ethic, and their contribution to the success of Ogden’s business, and industry is well documented. Although African-Americans could not be considered “immigrants” since they were brought to the Americas in the carly 1500's to provide labor in the building of an carly America’s agrarian economy, in Utah, their presence was felt as carlyas the earliest fur-traders, trappers, and. explorers. Ogden can especially proud of the fact that their prewas tabor underpaid cious, demonstrated in various positions, in serving Junction City and the Union es, Pacific Railroad, well. My.own._parents, Scott and Gertrude Stewart, migrated to Ogden in 1913, and were known and respected not for the kind of work they performed, but for the content of their character and good citizenship, as taxpaying, Ogden City property owners all of their lives. Two churches during this era, (in 1903 through 1915), were funded and erected by early Ogden blacks. One, the Wall Avenue Baptist Church which was located on 17th and Wall, and the other, the Embry Chapel A.M.E. Church— (since torn down) was located near 29th and Pingree Ave. Opportunities for blacks during the period were regulated by attitudes that we, in 1994, often forget. Nevertheless, it was in such an atmosphere, and because of these attitudes that many black businesses flougihed, such as the fa- mous “Porters’ and Waiters -Club,” (which serviced porters and waiters by contract with the railroads), and there were other businesses such as barbershops, restaurants, and beauty shops. { find it intolerable not to speak about this lack of inclusion of the African-American presence as a part of Ogden’s carly history. For the African-American did, in their own. unique and valuable way, provide much needed services. cultural contributions, and financial remuneration to the early Ogden community. Betty Stewart Moore ts a life-long resident of Ogden. '--{Above) During” an afternoon slow time, Willie Moore kicks back in one of his barber chairs and talks with employee Judy Archuleta while her dogs keep a seat warm for the next customer. (Left) A haircut for youngster Joshua Murillo keeps Willie away from the golf course. Whenever he can slip away, that’s where he can probably be found. STEVE CONLIN/Standard-Examiner By SUSAN ‘SNYDER’ : - ~~ Ogden | City-Fire Department: _ Fran Brown & Company Collegeof the. bank ends in August. _ Beauty. oa ts ae _ Histease-with an appointmenj,-but the. They're going:to raze the building,-and _GDEN —'If Willie Moore’s red Nobody makes ‘customers don’t mind waiting. Heck, Moore will move his clippers-and:those of - 1978 Cadillac is parked in front’ the three women who work ‘with him to. some of them don’t cven want acul.. | y of his barber: shop, chances are - . Slandard-Examiner statt =: “he’s clipping away inside. - They-simply stop in to visit with Moore, - 7. Or-at feast; he’s*inside:;) © 0 82° Brow, Sometimes, the clippers dangle from-the- - awho-ealls himself “the oldest thing.in. . the red leather barber chairs, reading the that is. . “Pm old. You just say 'm between 1 ~ and 100.” he said. Ogden.” ree, ~~ But he won't tell you exactly how old _ drawer-while Moore kicks back in one of. newspaper or chatting. with customers about his golf game or the Utah Jazz. He's been shaving, snipping and clipping heads around Utah since about 1944. He and his wife Betty married 42 Haircuts are $3.50, unless you're 65 or older. Then. theyre $2 — the same as a shave. Moore’s cash pockct. a 6S register is his shirt i ie “The older guys like that: 1think it’s a dying breed. There’re hardly any establishments offering those kinds of. shaves with the towels and such,” said Candace Hamon, manager of Ogden’s: - | years ago. when he was “about 27 or 28.” So that would make him about 70. He runs two-shops but prefers this 26th Strect shop he has run the past 19 years. 0. _ the shopat 381 Patterson... _ “As long.as people know where he is, they'll go to-him,” said Judy‘Archuleta, who has worked for Moore for nearly 15 years. Bo: ‘His customers are new ones and old oncs: Men and women. Businessmen and college Folks kids. in suits and folks in their last. | _ Moore's first clipping job was in a Salt Lake City mortuary more than40 years ago: Once, while he was trimming, he: It’s a tiny brick building that sits on the Bank of Utah parking lot. across. from the. . rolled. the body-over.and/air:trapped ._ ee ee 2 : . Seen es : EE . 5 and I didn’t go back” ae a Livelier business pies ball 3 dt Before he opened the 26th Strect-shop, . he had one on Grant Avenue near 33rd. Street. Before that; he cut hair-on 25th | Street. He has had three different shops. there over the years. Gallegos, Dallas a | A 41. remembcers.one - “customer. of _ the old Ogden shops and a haircut Moore gave him 30°ycars ago. Archuleta snipped cowboy ‘hats. People to whom he’s given their first haircut and those to whom he’s given inside hissed out like a punctured. bicycle _ eee 4 ted “It didn’t take me long to get back. ~~ day. upstairs,” Moore said.-“I left-that tube. - Gallegos’ coal-black locks. while he . working on another man’s head. > recalled the tale for Moore, who was. “My mom told my brother to tell you to give me a regular haircut, and he-told — you to shave my head.” Gallegos said: -* ‘ _ Add'l 25's | 3.00 -=~-Price, 52. has known 4h ‘surgcon-steady clippers $ Sur 1950s. : . back room where guys cu s ey were friendly games, "just the same. Moore sais th customers knew about wife didn’t. That's. becau: 4 i canara Ea ——7> + — - ; was in his usual oratory form on the radio, and the Southerner began to squirm. “He said, ‘Barber, ’'m from Mississippi, and I’ve never been shaved by a colored man before. Would you take that towel off my face so I can watch you sharpen that razor, or turn off that radio? I can’t help it. It makes me nervous.” _ “f almost killed myself laughing,” Moore said. Tee time ‘Nobody’s child BA RR KAD, -back there because there's rats back there,” “and she never did.” Moore said. =< He's got a ton of tales. RH ead LR *- The onc he's rcluctant to tell is about ‘his childhood. ez+ Moore said he was born in Grambling, ‘La.. and Icft home around the age of 9 to ; work for and live with a Jewish family that am: owncd a chain of stores. . ¥€. _He decided life in Louisiana was leading - him down a long road to nowhere, he said. It takes at least four or five haircuts to hear all of those stories, and probably years of haircuts to get to reruns. That’s because the barber is far more 32. The family that took him in traveled all him with opportu- likcly to strike up a Conversation about his other two passions in life — basketball and golf. — ** over the place. They moved to New Jersey, --" Chicago arid St. Louis before coming to .- Salt Lake City. They made sure he went to -*. school. which provided --; nities he might not have had otherwise, he « said. They dicd when he was about 17 and = left him cnough moncy to continue his ed“¥ucation. Longtime Per "= *The people who raised me wanted mS, tat ye BSEEe et ve & hk Et Lake City. and after school in completing Johnson Soon after that, he went into business with Lefty Stewart, a barber with whom he shared shops for almost 30 years. The pair Salt that course headed back to Loutsiana and attended Grambling State University for a year. He played basketball. and he was good. Really good. So good that the Harlem Globetrotters picked him up on a trip Tom went back to Salt Lake City to work as a barber. His first job was the one in the mortuary. me = to be a doctor.” Moore said. “But I took ’ the moncy and spent it.” He enrolled in barber customer waits early in the morning for Willie Moore to open his shop. You can be- © not only cut hair in Salt Lake City but also had contracts with Utah's military bases, for which they hired other barbers, Moore said. Stewart died about 10 years ago. Moore had a shop in Salt Lake City’s SRARE ey ; PRAMAS uy Voy . . through Louisiana, and he played for them for about a ycar. They called him “Ducky” . Union Pacific railroad station next to a club for-porters and waiters. He moved to Moore. “We traveled in a pancl truck. We went. Ogden about 1949 because business got a to the bathroom in the woods because we couldn't use the white bathrooms, and we took our lunch because of the same reason,” Moore said. “It was hard to make it bit too busy. And, he was robbed. Up here, he didn’t even lock his shop, except when the police called him at home lieve what Moore tells you but not what you read in his window. Note the open sign. it up and give each other haircuts. Onc of the carly Ogden shops was next to the Porters and Waiters Club. Those clubs were often the only place in town where the black men who worked on the raitroad could get a meal and clean bed. About the only time Moore mentions racism is when he tells the story about a white guy from Mississippt who walked in for a shave and haircut in 1965, the year Martin Luther King Jr. organized a march from Selma, Ala., to the state’s capital in Montgomery. The march was punctuated by opposition and rioting. Moore was listening to reports on the Sclma situation on. the radio as he slapped the straight razor on a leather strap to it. The customer's face was sharpen Golf. golf. golf. If Moore can’t be cutting hair, he’s probably teeing off. In the back room of his tiny barber shop are about five boxes of dusty trophies in various stages of assembly. He has a bunch at home, too, he said. There just isn’t room for them all. Some are for bowling or basketball, but most are for golf. Moore has played dozens of tournaments across Utah. Now. he plays golf Tuesdays and Thursdays and any other days he can sneak out without being caught by Archuleta or the others. “I play on days when they don’t even know I'm gone.” he said. “I tell them I have to go to the bank or something.” The women laugh and roll their eyes. He doesn’t fool them, but they don't care. He's helped more than one of them get back on their feet by giving them a job, flexible hours and his comforting chicken- soup philosophy on the tough days. “It’s nice to be important, but it’s 1mportant to be nice.” Moore said. he something than more That’s preaches. Moore and his workers often nursing in give free haircuts to people homes. and he even used to give free cuts he said he’s onc of the original. the booster club for the WU state’s professional. basketba the Jazz. He uscd to collect. programs and distribute th schoolchildren. Oe a He and his wife have bec more citizen advisory. boards can recall. : : They're both members of th sical Theatre board at Weber . ess z sity. Betty Moore's service includes ships on Weber State’s alumnt Friends of Stewart Library. ane County Council on Aging. > Willic Moore’s State member- be ES the community, included work with local citize boards for the American Red United Fund. which later b United Way: the state Department of © rections: Ogden’s Job Corps office: the: Family Counscling Services of Northern. - Utah Inc.. and Utah: Power's consumer: pancl. “I been on everything,” heijoked. His wife said she hangs the plaques rec-" ognizing his service here and there:around. - their home because they haveno formal a display case or wall. “He docsn’t think it’s a big deal,” Betty ae oe Moore said. “But he’s provided livelihoods for peo- ple. He's a role model for younger African-. Amcricans, too, because he’s always had. — his own place of business.” she said. “And: if you've been his customer for very long, he'll go to your home when you're ill and: cut hair. too. He won't take any moncy, and he won't quibble over it”. He says hell miss the 26th Street shop when they tear it down. It’s been here al) ae most longer than he has..Still, his customers.with follow..bim to-- the other place. sonal | eke = If the red Caddy’s not there, itdocsn t just. They'll haircut. a get can’t they mean have to settle for the capable handsof the other barbers, while Moore heads “to the. Standard-Examiner, Thursday, August 10,19 89 Home: Sunset, Utah Birthplace (and, if outside Utah, how i came to live here): Ogden, Utah, during the days when the street I was born on, on Wall Avenue between 29th and 30th, was tree-lined, green lawned, and had lovely small homes on either side of the street. A street car ran along Wall Avenue past :my~ house south to about 33rd Street. . Occupation: Retired Civil Service employee, now a free-lance writer. First job: As.a 15-year-old, worked as a “go-fer,” dress presser, and maid in a “classy” Ogden dress shop, The Nadine, which was located between 23rd and 24th Streets on Washington Boulevard. Favorite television show: CBS’s “Sunday Morning,” hosted by Charles Kuralt. It is a mixture of everything that is America! Last book [| read: Alice Walker’s “Temple of My Familiar” if | won a million dollars, the first thing | would buy: A mansion, very near or in the mountains, with a BIG master bedroom, interesting corners and © crevices; a home with an old-fashioned library, a huge kitchen, dining and living room, ALL with their own fireplaces. : What my “hell” would be like: To have to clean my dream house (above), EVERY DAY without any help. The person i most admire (and why): My parents for providing a stable and beautiful childhood; and the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. for providing me and others through his peaceful demonstrations movement, a more _ comfortable adulthood. He had the grace and courage to live and:die for-what he believed most in: America’s promise of freedom for all. Where I’m most likely to be found ona. weekend: At home, after church, reading, watching television, Or just enjoying my beautttul home and yard. If i had to give up good conversation, good books and chocolate, | would die. If | had two lives to live, with the second one | would: Be an actress. I love to please people, see them laugh, and try in some small way to enrich their lives in any way I can. Worst advice I ever got: To not speak up for what I believe, because to do so might be offensive or unladylike. Greatest accomplishment: The tenacity to “hang in there” and fact luck) to see the following: the nearing of “old age” — the joy of grandchildren, the enjoyment of retirement and the gift of a 40-year marriage to a wonderful husband who has. been a wondcerul father. SNA PSH OT is a weekly feature giving a glimpse of people in the Standard-Examiner circulation area. If you have suggestions, write: Snapshot, P.O. Box 951, Ogden, Utah 84402. 3p ) |