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Why does Garibaldi have a phone booth?
Ask the town’s sole and ‘tallest’ barber
BY SAMANTHA SWINDLER
The oregonian
As the sole barber and pro-
prietor of Tami’s Barber Shop
in Garibaldi, Tami Stover has
taken clippers to most of the
men in town.
A hand-painted sign above
the door proclaims the shop as
home of the “Tallest Barber in
Garibaldi,” a title the 5-foot-tall
Stover claims by default.
She’s the only barber in the
town of about 800 residents on
the Oregon Coast.
Stover opened her barber-
shop 25 years ago and initially
had to win over some skeptical
clients.
“I’m a lady barber, and in a
logging, fishing town, a lady
barber is kind of a scary thing,”
she said. “One of the guys said,
‘You’re not very tall,’ like that
affects being a barber for some
reason. I said, ‘Well, I’m the
tallest one in town.’ It just kind
of clicked, and it’s been there
ever since.”
Stover’s sense of humor is on
proud display outside her shop.
In addition to her tallest barber
designation, a mailbox with the
words “Air Mail” painted on
the side is affixed to her store
awning.
And the shop’s “cellphone
booth” has become a quirky
roadside attraction along U.S.
Highway 101.
Because of the pandemic,
Tami’s Barber Shop is appoint-
ment-only. But years ago, it
was a walk-in shop where cus-
tomers would wait their turns
inside the small space.
“I would have four or five
guys sitting here,” she said,
“and it was when cellphones
first started coming into the
world, and 99% of my custom-
ers are over 300 years old, so
they would get a call and they
can’t hear, so it’s on speaker.”
After joking about hearing
the results of one too many
Samantha Swindler/The oregonian
Standing at around 5 feet, Tami Stover is the tallest barber in Garibaldi. She is also the only barber in Garibaldi,
a town of about 800 residents on the Oregon Coast.
“One of the guys said, ‘You’re not very tall,’
like that affects being a barber for some
reason. I said, ‘Well, I’m the tallest one in
town.’ It just kind of clicked, and it’s been
there ever since.”
— Tami Stover, sole barber and proprietor of Tami’s Barber Shop
colonoscopies over speaker
phone, she told her husband
that she needed a cellphone
booth so they could take their
calls outside.
“It gets stormy and rainy
and nasty. I can’t ask the guys
to go stand outside and talk
on their phones,” she said. “I
was just teasing with my hus-
band, ‘I need a cellphone booth
Samantha Swindler/The oregonian
where I can get them out of the
weather.’ “
Her husband, also a jokester,
built one for her. It’s the same
size and style of an old pay
phone booth, minus the pay
phone.
“Now it’s turned into a tour-
ist thing,” Stover said. “People
walk by and they stop. They
come back, and they take pic-
The Garibaldi cellphone booth
was a joke built by Gerry Stover
for his wife’s barbershop.
tures of each other in it. It’s
goofy. But I’m goofy, and he
was goofy.”
Her husband, Gerry Stover,
died in 2019.
“It’s still kind of a little piece
of him that’s hanging out, out
there,” Stover said.
The booth never really took
off among her clientele, though
from her vantage at her bar-
ber’s chair, she sees the occa-
sional pedestrian jump inside
to get out of the rain.
“People do stop and take
pictures,” said Dawn Ritter,
manager of the Ghost Hole
tavern next door. “Where else
do you see that?”
Along with the Ghost Hole,
Tami’s is one of the oldest busi-
nesses in town. Ritter, who
grew up in Tillamook County
and has worked at the tavern
for 12 years, remembers when
the cellphone booth was in-
stalled.
“It was awesome, because it
was just a couple years after the
real phone booths went away,”
she said.
The booth has weathered a
decade of coastal winters. It’s
been thumped by many a pa-
tron leaving the parking lot.
But it lives on, and it’s part of
what makes Garibaldi “goofy,”
Stover said. “And we like it that
way.”
Stover, who grew up in
Boise, Idaho, started as a hair
stylist 42 years ago, cutting
women’s hair. She later got her
instructor’s license at a beauty
and barber college.
“And I just fell in love with
barbering,” she said. “Men are
so easy. They’re so fun. I cut
hair, we just B.S. Nobody gets
all ruffled if their bangs are
crooked.”
She keeps steady business
among the fishermen, Coast
Guard members and the locals
in Garibaldi, though she’s lately
decided to slow down and
work only four days a week.
“I have no desire to hang up
my clippers, but I don’t want
this to turn into a job. It’s never
been a job,” she said. “I get to
make a living running my fin-
gers through men’s hair. What
could be better?”
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Washington Legislature OKs requiring job listings to post salary info
BY LAUREN ROSENBLATT
The Seattle Times
Employers in Washington
state will soon have to dis-
close the starting salary for
open positions to job appli-
cants — at the beginning of
the recruiting process — if a
bill that recently passed both
chambers of the state Legisla-
ture becomes law.
Under the proposed legis-
lation, employers with 15 or
more workers would have to
disclose the hourly pay rate
or salary, or a range of what
they could be, as well as give
a general description of ben-
efits and other compensation
that could be offered in a job
posting.
That’s a change from the
current requirements that say
an employer must disclose a
salary range and benefits only
when a job offer has been
made — and the applicant asks
for it.
Oftentimes, applicants can’t
easily access pay information
when they apply for a job, said
state Sen. Emily Randall, one
of the bill’s sponsors. That can
create an imbalance among
applicants if some candidates
have a connection at the com-
pany that can shed light on
what the employer is willing
to offer, or if they have past ex-
perience negotiating a higher
pay rate.
Women, people of color and
other individuals from histori-
cally underrepresented groups
are more likely to be missing
those pieces to effectively ne-
gotiate a higher pay rate, said
Randall, a Bremerton Demo-
crat.
“I’ve never been a busi-
ness owner, but I have hired
a number of people,” she said
at a public hearing in Feb-
ruary. “I always know what
we’re able to pay ahead of
time. I have an idea what the
range is.
“For us to be transparent
about that is a pay equity issue.”
Employers would be held
to the same standards when
workers apply for new posi-
tions or promotions within the
same company. Postings for
internal transfers would also
need to include a wage scale or
salary range.
The House passed the legis-
lation, Senate Bill 5761, Tues-
day after the Senate moved it
forward in February. It was
delivered to Gov. Jay Inslee on
March 11. If he signs, the law
will go into effect in January
2023.
Already, the legislation has
drawn criticism from trade
groups advocating for business
owners. Bob Battles, the di-
rector of government affairs at
the Association of Washington
Business, said the bill would be
“cumbersome” for small em-
ployers. Bruce Beckett, a lobby-
ist with the Washington Retail
Association, said it could lead
to unintended consequences
for job seekers if their past sal-
ary is listed on a job posting
that future employers can eas-
ily track down.
Based on the legislation’s
definition of “posting,” it’s clear
employers wouldn’t have to in-
clude a salary range on “help
wanted” signs hanging on their
window, said Jim King, from
the Independent Business As-
sociation. But he’s less clear
about what counts as a qualifi-
cation. Does a flyer for an “ex-
perienced” line cook need to
include salary?
“We’re trying to keep this
as simple as we can” for small
business owners, King said,
adding that he felt the head
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count number determining
whether employers would be
required to disclose pay in-
formation should be higher.
An amendment to increase
that threshold from 15 to 50
employees failed to pass the
House.
Advocates of the legisla-
tion say it builds on past work
around pay equity, like ban-
ning employers from asking
job candidates about their sal-
ary history.
For Cher Scarlett, a software
engineer from Kirkland who
testified at a public hearing in
support of the bill, the legis-
lation is a way to ensure she
and her colleagues aren’t miss-
ing out on compensation they
could be getting, if only they
knew to ask.
Scarlett has led a charge to
bring attention to allegations
of pay disparities and gender
discrimination at companies
including Apple, Starbucks
and Activision Blizzard. She
has launched a wage survey at
Apple to study worker salaries
around the country and inves-
tigate anecdotal evidence of a
wage gap.
In her own past jobs, Scar-
lett said her salary has been
depressed because employers
asked for her salary expecta-
tions, rather than disclosing
how much they could offer.
She’s not in a position to ne-
gotiate, she said. In need of a
steady income, she can’t risk
losing an opportunity.
“We deserve to get paid what
we’re worth,” Scarlett said.
“And we deserve to know what
that value is.”
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