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VOTED BEST BARBERSHOP

Bolt Barbers has been voted Best Barbershop in DTLA five straight years in a row by The Downtown News in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, & 2015.

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Call Bolt Barbers ON SAFARI at 213 232 4715 or email info@boltbarbers.com to book your next private party, tailgating event, or whatever.

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Bolt Barbers mission is stirring the art of old school barbering...

...for the enjoyment and benefit of dudes aged 7-70 while creating community and encouraging dudes to just be themselves. That’s because Bolt IS a third place for dudes to hang after home and work/school.

Bolt Barbers was founded in Downtown Los Angeles in 2009 by former P&G marketing executive & corporate drop out “Mohawk Matt” during his mid life crisis.
Bolt Barbers Flagship is on Fifth & Spring Sts in DTLA, where Bolt Barbers has played an active role in contributing towards revitalization efforts of DTLA through commitment to create community as a “Third Place” for guys while providing authentic old school barbering services.

Bolt also operates Bolt Barbers On Safari, the Worlds Only Vintage Mobile Barbershop aboard a 1954 Spartan All Aluminum Travel Trailer. On Safari travels the “special events” circuit.

BOLT BARBERS™ Founder & Chief Barber “Mohawk Matt” Berman.

Mohawk Matt (aka Matt Berman) is the Founder and Chief Barber of Bolt Barbers™ with 2 So. Cal locations in DTLA and On Safari (Our Vintage Mobile Barbershop).

Established in 2009, Bolt creates community by providing dudes a third place (after highly defined roles played at home and work/school) to hang and just be themselves. Bolt’s fun loving monkey business is perhaps best portrayed through “People Hate Us on Yelp”, our social media campaign which features excerpts from Bolt’s own worst reviews as advertising fodder. Previously, Mohawk spent 25 years chasing cheese around the corporate world in high responsibility/low authority marketing and general management positions with Procter & Gamble, Coty, Novartis, and Royal Numico. Mohawk is a Wharton AMP Alumni, serves on the Yelp Small Business Advisory Council, and speaks occasionally at USC’s Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies about Entrepreneurial-ism..

Mohawk’s love for the barbershop started at age 15. Mohawk enjoyed cutting his own and friends hair and also spending time in barbershops. An extension of his own social circle, the barbershop was a place he could always go just to hang out and be himself, without the often constraining definitions of role carried from home and work/school. As Mohawk inched up the corporate ladder in a marketing and management career with big consumer goods companies, he took on more and more responsibility, but less and less authority. He was posted in exotic locales including Paris, Lisbon, Warsaw, & Amsterdam, and got fired about every 18 months forcing him to move often as the cheese was moved for him. As his career progressed without fulfillment, his happiness deteriorated. Mohawk craved the entrepreneurial risks of a start-up, finally taking the “plunge” in January, 2008 when his employer (Royal Numico Baby Food) was purchased by Danone. Mohawk chose to stay close to his career experience in his first entrepreneurial endeavor, leveraging his recent global baby food experience as Chief Marketing Officer by investing in a small Culver City based Organic Baby Food Start Up.

That experience, although unsuccessful, proved life changing. Mohawk realized he needed to run his own show, not invest in another show. He also realized it was time to stop ignoring a burning desire he had had since his early corporate days at P&G to open a barbershop. With the economy spiraling and the baby food start up out of cash, Mohawk decided it was time to start running towards his 30 year passion of barbering, instead of running away from it.

Mohawk enrolled at The Real Barbers College in Anaheim in August 2008 to obtain the training required to open his first barbershop. Besides his role as Founder & Spokesperson for BOLT BARBERS, Mohawk Matt takes an active barbering role as Chief Barber.

Man Up. Get A Haircut. Get Shorn. Get Shaved. At Bolt Barbers. For Social Beasts.

Not a homie in one of our hood(s)?

Bring the Bolt Barbers Experience to your hood with Bolt Barbers ON SAFARI.

Bolt’s Vintage Mobile barbershop….and the ONLY Bolt that’s On Wheels.  Call Bolt Barbers ON SAFARI at 213 232 4715 or email info@boltbarbers.com to book your next private party, tailgating event, or whatever with Bolt Barbers ON SAFARI aboard our All Aluminum 25 Foot Spartan Travel Trailer, Built in 1954 and Fully Restored in 2012 into a Vintage Mobile Barbershop.

OR SHOP the Bolt Barbers® experience with our online hairy beast shop at http://www.forsocialbeasts.com or on Amazon.com (search Bolt Barbers)

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