Between the two of them, Christopoulous and D'Alleva have 46 years of cutting, shaving and razor experience.

"In 1956 when I got my barber's license I was the youngest barber in Boston. Seventeen years old and a full-fledged barber. I was in the newspapers," says Anthony.

Things have changed around the Harvard Shop since Anthony began. It used to be located on Mass. Ave, but had to move because the lease expired. When D'Alleva first began working in 1964 he said the Harvard managers made sure he was polite to all the customers, and that he stood by his chair--even when he didn't have a customer.

"Years ago I wouldn't be able to go out of the store to get a cup of coffee," says D'Alleva.

During the Harvard strike in 1969 and the clamor of Vietnam demonstrations, the Harvard Shop was severely vandalized. Christopoulous said the police came by one day at about 6 p.m. and told him to close up because 3000 demonstrators were marching down Mass. Ave.

"I remember someone picked up a stone so big that it went through our glass window and almost put a hole in the plywood wall at the back of the store that was 40 feet from the window," says D'Alleva. "The first impression I had was that King Kong came in and broke our window," he adds.

While the two barbers are used to distinguished customers they make no distinctions between patrons. "I take pride in giving a haircut to anyone. Not just a famous person like Kennedy or Galbraith, because everybody is going to be somebody someday," says D'Alleva.

D'Alleva came to the United States in April of 1964 from Italy. He said life in America was very difficult for him at first because he didn't speak any English. One of his first hair cut customers he recalls, refused to let him cut his hair because Ralph could not speak English. "He wanted my words to cut his hair, not my scissors," says Ralph. "Actually, that man still comes here, but not to me, naturally."

D'Alleva says he likes cutting American hair more than Italian hair because Americans are less pretentious and don't worry about the quality of the cut as much.

"Americans want to sit in the chair for 10 minutes and get back to work. Italians are more restful, some of them say. 'I was born tired and I'm going to live to rest.'"