This month, community members can donate a new unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots, and get 50% off from a service at Members Only Barber Shop (MOB), 2005 State St., Santa Barbara.

Every year MOB owner Henry Franco decorates his shop for Christmas — not just the traditional trimming with paintings on the windows and a few lights, but the entire storefront.

Members Only Barber Shop celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, and each year Franco goes all out on the shop’s Christmas decoratios.

“The decorations get better and better each year, and the shop is decorated from bottom to the rooftop,” he said.

Over the years MOB has been transformed into a winter wonderland with themes such as a Polar Bear dressed in rubber duckie pajamas on an igloo, and once the entire building was transformed into a gingerbread house.

Franco has been presented with numerous awards by the Downtown Organization’s holiday decorating contest, and they hang proudly in his shop.

“As a tonsorial artist, Franco decorated the interior of his shop with a traditional barbershop theme, and everywhere you look you will see his other artistic abilities as a Modern Artist; it’s an art gallery like no other,” MOB said.
 
“We need to get back to the essentials, with Santa Claus,” Franco said. “I just want to bring back some of that joy, I enjoy the smiles it brings people, and I love to watch all the people stopping by to take pictures.

“Wouldn’t it be great if every kid got toys for Christmas?”

This year Franco went back to the basics, with a theme focusing on Santa Claus and Toys for Tots.

For more, call 805-965-1845, or visit http://www.membersonlybarbershop.com/.