{"id":329300,"date":"2025-10-24T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329300\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:13:14","slug":"a-reader-expresses-pride-for-recognition-of-historic-black-barbershop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329300\/","title":{"rendered":"A reader expresses pride for recognition of historic Black barbershop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Oct. 24, 2025 7 AM PT <\/p>\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: My fondest childhood memories from the early 1950s come from when I was living in Pacoima on Van Nuys  Boulevard, walking hand-in-hand with my grandfather down the boulevard where all the small Black- and Mexican-owned businesses were located.<\/p>\n<p>I was so proud to read the article by Jasmine Mendez acknowledging Stylesville Barbershop &amp; Beauty Salon as the oldest Black-owned business in the city of Los Angeles (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-10-12\/pacoima-black-owned-barbershop-receives-landmark-status\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHistoric Black barbershop in San Fernando Valley receives city landmark plaque,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 12). Noticing the well-worn condition of the barber chairs, I hope that someone with the means to do so will come forward to replace them, or perhaps there could be a neighborhood fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Sosa, Studio City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 24, 2025 7 AM PT To the editor: My fondest childhood memories from the early 1950s come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[151733,64,1582,276,2451,163708,7129,163709,163706,163707,2961,19945,224,2444,5337,3009,22223,43803,39410,151727],"class_list":{"0":"post-329300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-beauty-salon","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-city","13":"tag-city-landmark-plaque","14":"tag-editor","15":"tag-fond-childhood-memory","16":"tag-historic-black-barbershop","17":"tag-jasmine-mendez","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-letter","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-pride","24":"tag-reader","25":"tag-recognition","26":"tag-san-fernando-valley","27":"tag-stylesville-barbershop"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115429560287160822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}