3:11PM - 125th Street - The Apollo Theater - Harlem..Deon trims a beard as an MTA Bus is seen traveling the M101 route along 125th Street out of the back of the Barbershop On Wheels..--------------------------------------------..ÒIÕm like the ice cream man, only we donÕt sell ice cream, we sell haircuts.Ó..---..Deon Maynard wants to change the worldÉoneÉhaircutÉatÉaÉtime. ThatÕs right, by cutting hair. Spend a day with the man behind ÒBarbers on WheelsÓ and youÕll see that heÕs making some pretty good progress at it, too. Whether itÕs sprucing up the beard of a man on his way to a job placement program in downtown Brooklyn, laughing it up barbershop-style with theater executives outside of The Apollo in Harlem or putting smiles of the faces of passersby on Fordham Road in the Bronx, there seems to be something about this particular brand of innovation that gets in peoples bones and inspires them. ÒItÕs time people start to look at barbers differently,Ó says the 31-year old native of Barbados. ÒWe reface the entire world. We change appearances. When weÕre done, people think of themselves differently.Ó..Deon Maynard also wants to be rich. In fact, four months ago the Barbados native (his family moved to Flatbush when he was 2) created what he believes to be the first-ever ÒBarbershop on WheelsÓ to cash in on being Òwhere the action is.Ó After years of being weighted down by brick-and-mortar outlets throughout New York, the wheels beneath his barbershop now allow him to go wherever business is best, whenever it is best. Says Maynard, ÒI could be on the moon and cut hair. As long as thereÕs Martians with hair, IÕm gonna cut hair.Ó ..So, from dawn Ôtil well, well past dusk, Deon, alongside his driver and associate Philip White, roam the five boroughs and Western Long Island in a bakery truck whose interior has been stylishly, if not efficiently, converted into 3 seat barbershop fitted with a top-of-the-line entertainment system. They stop at pedestrian hotspots like Broa
