[upbeat banjo music]
- Angela: For the last 60 years,
the people of Chetek, Wisconsin have depended on two things:
good fishing and Harry Bossany.
- My wife calls it Floyd's barber shop.
She calls me the mayor of Knapp Street.
[laughs] She says I don't miss a thing.
She said, "You see something, you go check it out."
- Angela: It's that acute sense of awareness
that makes Harry's barber shop the place to be
for the need to know.
- He knows everybody.
He knows everything Chetek.
I mean, if you wanna know something before the paper,
you come and ask Harry.
- Well, right now, I'm I think by far
the oldest businessman in town.
And I can remember when I was younger,
there was a few older guys
that if you wanted to know something about way back,
you looked them boys up and asked them the question.
Now, they're coming to me! [laughs]
Oh, boy, yeah.
- Angela: The daily scuttle might be what draws people in,
but it's the laughs that makes them stay.
- But you must be pretty special.
- Well, my wife don't think so. [both laugh]
- The wisdom that flows from the jokes,
I mean, you saw it.
The minute you walk in, he's got a joke for you, you know?
- Just trying to find your good side
and you can't find it! [laughs]
- Yeah, there isn't one.
- I wish I'd have saved a dime every haircut I gave.
I'd own this whole town by now. [laughs]
- Angela: It's that quick wit that people have grown to love.
- Harry's Harry, everybody loves Harry, everybody.
I'm sure his wife does, too. [laughs]
- He's Floyd from the barbershop in Mayberry.
I mean, he listens to polka music every morning.
[polka music]
- Angela: For many, Harry is one of a kind.
- When Harry even retires, it's gonna be,
I think it's just gonna be a loss for this city.
There'll never be anybody like Harry.
- We got a lot of jokes, we got a lot of...
You feel good when you come here.
[men laughing]
- Angela: And for the people of Chetek,
Harry is everything they ever wanted in a barber.
- Yeah, I've been here a long time.
Yes, a lot of people do know me.
Yeah, that makes me feel old. [laughs]
And I am old!
I shouldn't say that. [laughs]
Oh, boy, yeah.
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