My visit to Chiseled Face Groomatorium Store

well that was a shaggy dog joke

 

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

 

Tell that to Groucho.

 

I might, but he'd probably come back with another.

 

I held out mapping my distance to this store for almost 5 minutes, I'm proud of myself. It's 318 miles, doable for a day trip. I might have to take a long weekend and visit this summer, escape the Phoenix heat

 

If you come out you can actually visit 3 stores. The shoppes in Pasadena
West coast shaving in chino
Groomatorium in Ontario .

The ontario and chino store are fairly close to each other

 

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Nope, no shave shops in Pasadena - I've driven down Red Bluff through downtown, and they don't have anything like that there. (Texas).

As for Ontario, there might be one there, but that's a big province.

 

Nope...no shave shops in "Stinkadena"...or anywhere else in Houston or the surrounding counties.
If someone were to open up a well stocked shave shop in this area, it would attract business from all over the region.

Love the pooch! Look at those eyes. That dog wouldn't hurt a fly.

 

What would BE a well stocked shop? I mean, lots of razors, lots of blades, lots of A/S, lots of soap, which?

 

Yeah...that.

Or...lets go by the razor shop, after we go by the blade shop...we could even go by the A/S shop after hitting up the soap shop. Better yet, lets put lots and lots and lots of variety together in one location! Would that BE...a well stocked shop?

 

y'got me. I've never been in a 'shaving supplies' shop. On "That" forum, one of the things that got me hammered was I posted up a topic, asking people to post what would be _in_ their ideal shave shop. I got reamed for asking people to do my research for me, despite the fact I wasn't asking for research.

Maybe I'll try again here. I'm STILL curious about what people would want in a shop. You see, the only thing there is here is AoS. There's also The British Isles, which sells stuff from the UK, as well as a few shaving related items, but that's about it. So the only shops I have experience with are like Sally's Beauty, and the various random 'Beauty Supply' shops.

There was a Remington store many years ago, but I think they're long gone, and they mostly sold electric shavers and knives. No guns, interestingly enough for Texas.

 

Agreed...we have "Art of Shaving" and "The British Isles" over in Rice Village...thats about it.

AoS...LOVE their product. Their hard soaps and creams are some of the best I've used, but, they're brand specific...of course.

British isles...has one set of shelves that stock some name product (think St. James of London, Edwin Jagger, TOBS creams, etc.)...but it's over priced and a very small selection.

Think of WCS, Maggards, QED or some other example like "Groomatorium"...but local to us. That would be a wet shavers dream and we live in a very large market here.

 

That's just it. I've never seen them, and only a few photos of places like Groomatorium.

It would probably fit best in the Heights, or maybe Midtown/Fourth Ward, but the rents could be exorbitant. Sometimes I wish I could afford to put up a retail business. At least I'd be in one place, even if my hours weren't any shorter

 

I don't know if they still carry anything, but several years ago I went to Life Check Drugs on Post Oak at San Felipe and was able to get a nice badger brush. They also had a lot of the Clubman line in stock, and some other stuff. It's been a few years since I've been over that way so I have no idea if my information is current.

I've been to the British Isles shop once (would love to go back). I didn't recall their prices being that bad, especially if you didn't have to wait for the mail http://britishislesonline.com/toiletries/mens-toiletries/taylor-of-old-bond-street/ (as a sample)

 

Found this info for us Houston area folks too: http://houston.cbslocal.com/top-lists/top-stores-to-get-shaving-supplies-in-houston/ (it's from 2014, but I visited the websites and they are still up and running and all do carry some shave stuff).

 

would love to visit pastuers pharmacy in new york.a friend got me a bottle of fine platinum from there on a work related visit.if vancouver bc had a place like that well.....i d need a third bedroom.