BARBER POLE

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Barber poles derive from the practice of bloodletting. Barbers, at one time, served as bloodletters as well as haircutters. The barber's pole is emplematic of blood soaked bandages. Today's barbers, in contrast to their predecessors, try not to draw blood. LARRY ELKINS - elkinsphotos.com

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH - TOMBSTONE AZ

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Tombstone Arizona is the oldest Protestant church in what is now the State of Arizona. An outbuilding now used as a Sunday school was formerly a brothel. LARRY ELKINS - ELKINS PHOTOS