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Hollis & Crane Book a chair
The parlour floor — oak chairs, brass fittings, morning light through the front glass

Est. 1928 · Fort Worth

A good chair, a sharp blade, no hurry.

Hollis & Crane has kept Fort Worth trimmed through four booms, two wars and one regrettable decade for sideburns. The parlour is where it has always been. So is the standard.

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Since 1928

Three generations of the same conversation.

Earl Hollis opened the door in 1928 with two chairs, one strop and a sign he couldn't quite afford. Walter Crane bought in the year the stockyards boomed, and the name has read Hollis & Crane ever since — through the son, the granddaughter, and every regular who swears the coffee hasn't changed.

The chairs are the originals, re-sprung. The mirrors are the originals, resilvered. The conversation is whatever it was when you left it last time. We keep the parlour the way you keep anything worth keeping: in use.

Brass-edged mirror and the first chair, kept in service since 1928

The rituals

Three ways to leave better.

Everything on the board, done the way it was taught to the person doing it.

  1. The Cut

    Forty-five minutes, scissors where scissors belong, clippers where they don't. Finished at the neck with a blade and talc, not a guess.

  2. The Shave

    Hot towels until the beard surrenders, lather from a mug, and a straight razor with your name on the honing schedule. The chair leans all the way back for a reason.

  3. The Tidy-Up

    Twenty minutes between the big visits — neck, ears, edges and the beard line. You look after the week; we look after the fortnight.

House rule
We sharpen the razors every morning and the jokes about once a decade.
Framed above the register since 1954

The list

Priced like we mean it.

No packages, no memberships, no asterisks. The price is the price, and it includes the conversation.

The Cut

$48 45 minutes

Cut, blade finish, hot towel to close.

  • Scissor work first
  • Neck finished with a blade
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Most popular

The Cut & Shave

$78 one sitting

The full hour and a quarter. Leave as the best version of your barber's afternoon.

  • Both rituals, one chair
  • The good towels twice
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The Shave

$38 30 minutes

Hot towels, mug lather, straight razor.

  • Blade honed that morning
  • Chair fully reclined
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The chairs

Three chairs, three temperaments.

You don't book a service here so much as a person. Choose accordingly.

Ray Hollis

First chair · third generation

Learned the trade sweeping this floor and never really left. Cuts slow, talks slower, remembers your last haircut better than you do.

Dee Ferrell

Second chair · the shave

Twenty years on the razor and a firm belief that most problems survive a hot towel worse than you'd think. Silent shaves available on request; she started the tradition.

Sam Okafor

Third chair · the fade and the fortnight

The newest chair, which around here means eleven years. Precise to the millimetre and the only one of us who'll tell you the truth about your hairline kindly.

The regulars

Heard from the chairs

My grandfather sat in this chair. My father sat in this chair. I mostly come for the silence, which is also inherited.
Tom ReevesSecond chair, every other Thursday
I moved to Dallas eleven years ago. I still drive back. Do the math on what that says about Dallas barbers.
Marcus BellThe Cut & Shave, monthly
Dee shaved me on my wedding morning and told me to stop fidgeting. Best advice I got all day.
J. W. CallowayRegular since 2009

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Take a chair.

Walk-ins take the next free chair. Booking takes the one you wanted. Tuesday to Saturday, first towel at nine.

Visitors pick a chair, a date and a time here, then leave their details.

Chair
Ray — first chair · Dee — second chair · Sam — third chair
Open
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Hours
09:00–18:00
Slots
09:00 · 09:45 · 10:30 · 11:15 · 12:00 · 12:45 …

The parlour

Same door since 1928.

South Main, under the painted sign. If the pole is turning, someone's in the window seat and the wait is worth it.

Email
hello@example.com
Phone
+1 817 555 0128
Address
Fort Worth, Texas
Hours
Tue–Sat 9–6 Sun–Mon Closed