The Viking barbershop in San Francisco’s Castro District was a small, conversation-based walk-in joint operated by Robbie Robinson, who had been a bartender before he became a barber. People ...

Born Aug. 6, 1955, in Pueblo, Colo., to Robert E. “Bobby” and Edith Robinson. Where the family lived in Rye, Colo., Robbie joined brothers, Ray and Jay, soon followed by sister, Lynda, and years later ...