Phil Cowles in 1959, at seventeen years of age, had graduated high shool, moved to Winston Salem to get his North Carolina Barber License and become a full time barber. Phil started his career at the CharlotteTown Mall-Charlotte’s first mall and one of the first in the region. Several years later he purchased his first barbershop in the downtown Charlotte’s Manger Motor Inn. The Manger was at the time, one of Charlotte’s finest hotels. He then purchased his shop at Park Road in 1972, after his wife Martha also completed her barber training. Phil currently still owns and operates the establishment along with wife and daughter Melanie. Phil has enjoyed over the years of getting to know the Park Road area families and even cutting the hair of three generations in one family. He has become a family tradition for many locals in the area.