EST. 2014 Old Fourth Ward · Atlanta, GA

FOUR CHAIRS. ONE BLOCK. TEN YEARS.

The Kingsmen floor — original hex tile, barber chairs in a row, warm light through the front window

Marcus Bell opened Kingsmen in 2014 with one chair borrowed from his uncle's tailor shop. Same block ten years later. Three more chairs, four barbers, and a list that starts moving at nine.

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— The block

Edgewood Avenue.

Old Fourth Ward, two blocks east of the streetcar line, between a print shop and a place that sells fish plates on Fridays. If you've ever parked at Krog Street and walked north, you've gone past our door.

The neighborhood cuts here. Men who have been coming since the tailor-shop days. Men who moved into the new builds off Auburn last spring. Line cooks before a shift, contractors after one, and a long run of fathers with sons every Saturday morning.

We're not a destination. We're the shop on the way home.

That shapes everything about how this place runs. Nobody here is planning a grooming appointment three weeks out. They're deciding whether to pull over. So the chairs stay open, the prices stay flat, and the list keeps moving.

Wide view of the shop floor at Kingsmen — warm tungsten light, mirrors, waiting bench by the window

900— square feet, mostly floor

A skin fade in progress at Kingsmen — clippers held flat against the side of the head

— The room

Four chairs.
Two mirrors.
One sink.

Original hex tile. Pressed tin overhead. Four Belmont chairs bought used and rebuilt twice since. The long mirrors came out of a shop on Auburn that closed in 2016, and the hand-painted sign on the door was done by a guy who lives four houses down.

There's a bench for six by the window and a stack of magazines nobody reads. The coffee is free and it is not good coffee.

Every station is set up identically: clippers, shears, straight razor, hot lather machine, towel warmer. Combs and guards go into Barbicide between every client, blades are single-use, and the shop and all four barbers hold current Georgia licenses. The board is on the wall by the door if you want to read it.

4Chairs on the floor

2014On this block since

~50Cuts a day

— The culture

What it's actually like in here.

Three things that don't usually make it onto a barbershop website.

It gets loud

There's a speaker over chair two and it does not get turned down. Somebody will have an opinion about the Hawks. You're welcome to have one back, or to put your headphones in and say nothing for thirty-five minutes. Both are normal here.

You'll get interrupted

People come through who aren't getting cut. Somebody drops off a package. Somebody's mother brings a plate. If your barber steps away for thirty seconds, that's why. It comes out of the wait, not out of your cut.

Nobody sells you anything

We keep pomade, beard oil and one good brush behind the register, all under twenty dollars. Nobody is going to bring them up while you're in the chair. If you want something, ask, and your barber will tell you straight whether you need it.

— 2977 Edgewood Ave NE

COME
SEE
THE ROOM.

Walk in any day we're open. No appointment, no phone call, no account to make.

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1842 EDGEWOODATLANTA, GA 30307

404.555.0188TUE–SAT 9–7 · SUN 10–5

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