There’s an historical barber shop on University Street in the Windsor Square shopping and dining area. The barbershop has been in operation since 1963 and the current owner is Mitch Snyder.
Mitch Snyder bought it from the former owner, Ryan Cullen in September of 2023 and is keeping the haircutting business alive in this shop. Snyder is the fifth owner of the barbershop and he says he still gets customers from the past coming in to get a trim and share memories of this barbershop that has so much history behind it.
Back in 2018, when Ryan Cullen owned the shop I came here and got my winter beard shaved off (the link to that post is below). Since spring has sprung, I thought I’d return to the scene of that shave and get my beard cut off by the newest owner of this historical barbershop which is now called, Snyder’s Barbershop.
Here we are at Snyder’s Barbershop, which I believe is the oldest barbershop in existence in Peoria’s history!
Let’s go in and see what’s happening!
It’s a full shop with barbers renting space from owner Mitch Snyder.
And speaking of Mitch, there he is! He’s all ready for his shaving assignment, but he said I could take a few photos of the shop before we begin.
On a technical note: The circle lights in here are kind of screwing up the MBIP Camera, so some of the shots will be a little on the fuzzy side, but what are you going to do?
The shop definitely has an old school, neighborhood barbershop vibe to it. Lots of fun things to look at in here and that tiger survived the Washington Torndado in 2013!
Here’s the owner of that tiger, Phoebe, who’s a barber here and she agreed to take photos because she was in between clients this afternoon.
The shaving begins and again note that the photos are a little over-saturated and fuzzy at times due to the ring lighting in the shop.
Mitch first shaved me down to a goatee and sideburns. Nice!
Then we went for a moustache and a soul patch below that. I’m a soul man!
Next we go for the clean shaven look. Beard be gone!
We finished it off with a barbershop shave and a hot towel on the face for a refreshing hot towel shave!
Thanks to Mitch for a first class job of shaving me and to Phoebe for taking the photos!
Stop in to Snyder’s Barbershop for a shave or a haircut and check out an historic Peoria barbershop!
Here I am back at the MBIP World Headquarters clean-shaven and ready for the summer of 2025!
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7312 N. University Street (In Windsor Square)
Peoria
309-6916889
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