About Us
You've tried their way, now try GULFWAY!
LEE MACK — OWNER OF GULFWAY BARBERS
Class A Barber since 1959
Brian Autry, licensed in 1986, trained the old school way from apprentice to a master barber. Learning many barbering techniques from a master barber licensed 1941; to carry on the old traditional style of straight razor shaving, flat top and taper cutting, hot towels, shaving lather and crew comb are as important now as they were then for that great traditional style cuts.
Later licensed in California, learning all the latest and greatest cuts and learning new techniques from guys like IVAN ZOOT and DONNIE HAWLYWOOD, "twenty years In Los Angeles was enough time to see what needed to be done."
Now I bring my clipper styling to the Texas Riviera, in the great city of Corpus Christi, so get down here and get your Texas tornado of hair hooked up at GULFWAY BARBERS.
My name is Althea. I'm from North Carolina, where some folks call us hillbillies. I don't care; I can holler around a mountain. I've never met a stranger — some strange folks though. I got tired of being cold quickly. As a child I was a Daddy`s girl. On Saturday morning my Mom would dress me in my Sunday best and send me off to City Barber Shop with my Dad. My cousin was Dad's barber so naturally I got my bangs trimmed and my shoes shined. I so enjoyed the camaraderie and knew at an early age what I wanted to do.
Over a period of eighteen years, many of which were spent in my Magnolia tree waiting for Dad to get home. When I heard that old hook truck cross the railroad tracks, I would start down and dash for the end of the drive. I discovered early on that I had rather explain to Dad the offence I had committed before Mom did. Mostly Mom did not want me around his old Harley. She just didn't understand he did.
My girls and I fished the Rocky River and Badin Lake on the weekends. I got tired of catching catfish. We took a vote and decided to go further south. We stopped at West Point Lake in West Point, Georgia. Still on the cold side voted again, tried Eufaula Lake in Alabama. Huge bass but still too cold (as you have probably guessed) another vote was taken, this time we were headed for warm weather: Texas gulf coast; Corpus Christi, to be exact.
During the filming of "Pearl Harbor", on the Lexington, I was working as a crew member cutting hair for the extras. That experience was the chance of a lifetime. I did see several of my haircuts while watching the movie.
There's nothing that thrills more than a Bull Red pulling drag. I've worked in Corpus Christi for about fifteen years. My husband kids me about knowing every man in town. I've found paradise!! I have my very own Harley and a profession I thoroughly enjoy. What more could a girl ask for? I would like to reconnect with former customers and make new customers and friends.