I agree with Robb Moffett. Another outstanding example of Vachon's composition is https://www.shorpy.com/node/26363. It's amazing that he saw and composed so many different types of curves in one photo.

I remember my grandfather, born in the early 1930s in an industrial city in Connecticut, saying that when he was a child some of the barbershops in town had bathtubs for public use. He said that back then many poorer people did not have tubs in their apartments.

Whenever I notice one of your photos with an extra cool style of composition the photographer is so often John Vachon. The more I look at this one the more I like it -- the legs of two ladies walking out of the frame while the barber is ascending into the center, adding depth to the photo with strong angles holding the parts together as everything orbits a crazy-looking pole in the center with action-oriented graphics painted on the base. The photo was taken in 1943 but it is still moving.