Why do Barbers shops have red and white poles outside them?

Answer 1

From the barber-surgeons some centuries ago that used to do blood-letting and other forms of minor surgery (without anaesthetic!) as well as doing the usual barber-type work. Remember that shaving was with a blade which was wielded with skill and expertise. The red represents the blood and the white represents the bandages.

Answer 2

Because many years ago Barbers were also surgeons.
The Red and White pole represents a Bandage with blood on it.

Answer 3

This pole, painted spirally with 2 stripes of purple and white and displayed outdoors barbers shops, derives from the days whilst barbers additionally practised phlebotomy. The pole represents the staff gripped via persons in venese action, which became painted purple with the aid of fact it became many times stained with blood. The white spiral represents the bandage that became twisted around the arm earlier blood-letting began. The gilt knob on the tip of the pole represents the brass basin, which became now and lower back unquestionably suspended from it. The basin, which had a notch in it to in good shape the throat, became used for lathering consumers earlier shaving. playstation : Why are there so few of them around recently? And once you have your hair decrease (male) why is it so complicated to locate a barber who will additionally provide you a very close shave besides with a type of decrease throat razors? whilst i became a new child interior the 50s those have been continually popular at barbers (no longer that i wanted one then).

Answer 4

This harks back to the days when barbers were also surgeons. they carried out minor operations. The red signifys blood, and the white is for the bandaging.

Answer 5

I'm sure barbers came from the USA and the pole is a lollipop stick

Answer 6

It is something that harks back to Medieval times when Barbers used to let blood as well as cut hair.

Answer 7

The origin of the barber pole is associated with the service of bloodletting. During medieval times, barbers also performed surgery on customers. The original pole had a brass basin at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were kept) and bottom (representing the basin which received the blood). The pole itself represents the staff which the patient held onto during the procedure.

The red and white stripes symbolize the bandages used during the procedure: red for the blood-stained and white for the clean bandages. Originally, these bandages were hung out on the pole to dry after washing. As the bandages blew in the wind, they would twist together to form the spiral pattern similar to the stripes in the modern day barber pole. The barber pole became emblematic of the barber/surgeon's profession. Later the cloths were replaced by a painted wooden pole of red and white stripes.

After the formation of the United Barber Surgeon's Company in England, a statute required the barber to use a blue and white pole and the surgeon to use a red pole. In France, surgeons used a red pole with a basin attached to identify their offices. Blue often appears on poles in the United States, possibly as an homage to its national colors. Another interpretation of these barber pole colors is that red represents arterial blood, blue is symbolic of venous blood, and white depicts the bandage.

Prior to 1950 there were four manufacturers of barber poles in the United States. In 1950, William Marvy of St. Paul, Minnesota started his barber pole manufacturing business. Mr. Marvy made his 50,000th barber pole in 1967, and by the early part of 1996 over 74,000 poles had been produced. The William Marvy Company is the sole remaining manufacturer of barber poles in North America. In recent years, the sale of spinining barber poles has dropped considerably, both because very few new barber shops are opening and many jurisdictions prohibit moving signs of any kinds as unsightly or visually disrupting.

The term "on the barber pole" is pilot jargon that refers to flying an aircraft at the maximum safe velocity. The Airspeed Indicator on aircraft capable of flying at altitude features a red/white striped needle resembling a barber pole.

This needle displays the VMO (Maximum Operating Velocity) or - at altitude - the MMO (Mach Limit Maximum Operating Speed) of the aircraft.

As the aircraft increases in altitude, and the air decreases in density and temperature, the speed of sound also decreases.

Close to the speed of sound, an aircraft becomes susceptible to Mach Buffet - shockwaves produced by flying so close to the sound barrier. Thus - as the speed of sound decreases, so the maximum safe operating speed of the aircraft is reduced. The "barber pole" needle moves to indicate this speed.

Flying "on the barber pole" therefore means to be flying the aircraft as fast as is safe to do so in the current conditions.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

they aint poles there big lolly pop sticks