The barber was Frank Crowd, prominent Black barber who later owned theaters in LaVilla neighborhood
A couple of weeks ago, Mitch Hemann was rummaging through the abandoned offices of a long-closed casket factory when he found an old framed photo, leaning against a wall with some other pictures. Instantly, he knew this was something special.
The large print, through a layer of dust that had worked its way under the glass in a busted frame, showed two men one older, one middle-aged and a younger male, probably a teenager, on the porch of a simple wood-framed building. Another man leans slightly out of a side window frame.