[upbeat banjo music]
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."
[laughter]
- 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 about 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 ask 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 last that makes them stay.
- Well, you must be pretty special.
- Well, my wife... 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! - Yeah, there isn't one. - [laughs]
I wish I'd have saved a dime every haircut I gave.
I'd own this whole town by now.
[laughter]
- 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.