Main Line Hair Salon Set Down Roots in Cinnaminson 40-Plus Years Ago

John Melchiorre, hairstylist and businessman, has been washing, cutting and styling the locals for decades.

  It was an era when men would welcome an hour-long refuge from the world by smoking cigarettes, yakking politics or viewing the men's glossies, all while waiting their turn for the barber chair, remembers Main Line Hair Salon owner John Melchiorre, 62, of the years his dad owned a barbershop in Philadelphia. “My father used to stand on milk crates to cut hair,” Melchiorre says, chuckling. “It was a very different time.” Indeed. Melchiorre’s father, a first-generation Italian in Philadelphia began cutting hair in 1914 in a neighborhood shop at 5th and Cambria streets.  When Melchiorre was 13, he started spending more time in his dad’s shop and learned how to cut hair. Growing up, his family lived in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia…

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