Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept/Oct 2014

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One summer day this past
week, I strolled into Causey’s Barber Shop
in Mount Pleasant’s Sea Island Shopping
Center. My publisher had asked me to tag
along with him and interview his barber
while he got his hair cut.
A walk through the barbershop’s front door stirred my
inner sports fanatic. My publisher and I sat with a few
regulars who knew the barbers
by name. My eyes darted from
old USC football helmets to various and rare baseball cards
to a framed poster of Michael Jordan. My publisher chat-
ted away about magazine deadlines and advertising sales,
but my attention was directed at the sports memorabilia.
The dimly lit barbershop had a funky demeanor about
it. I wanted to learn more about the place, but, shortly
after I began to really investigate all the sports stuff, my
publisher’s barber called us over. Donnie Burretto Jr. is a
second generation Causey’s barber whose father, Donnie
Burretto Sr., not only cut hair at Causey’s but also was the
barber in charge of chopping off the cadets’ hair when they
stepped foot on the Citadel campus.
Burretto comes from a lineage of barbers and is
skilled enough to tackle some of the most difficult
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