FRANKTON — When Jack Melling locked the door on his barber shop Friday, it was for good.

After 60 years.

The longtime owner of Melling’s Barber Shop retired this week. A party in his honor is set for 11 a.m. today at the shop.

It is a well-worn, comfortable, familiar shop, right out of an episode of “The Andy Griffith Show.”

Only there were no strippers in Mayberry.

“He had a girl come in, and we think somebody sent her in,” said the Rev. Al Covell, retired minister of the Frankton Christian Church. “Because she took her top off.”

Covell paused, then snickered naughtily.

“And he cut her hair.”

Melling, now 81, and his lone employee, son Andy, were closing up when the woman came into the shop, a drink in her hand from a nearby tavern.

The woman sat in the chair and, as Andy Melling prepared to cut her hair, she said, “Do I have to wear this sweater while I get my haircut?”

Andy answered, jokingly, “You don’t even have to wear your bra, if you don’t want to.”

That’s when the woman, a stripper from Marion, pulled off sweater and bra. Jack Melling quickly closed the window blinds.

“I’ve been doing this for over 50 years, and I’ve never had anything like that happen,” Melling said Wednesday, laughing.