George Jung of ‘Blow’ fame returns to South Bay’s Tonsorial Parlor for one more cut
Robbie Allen and Dale Snowberger of the Tonsorial Parlor reconnect with old friend George Jung, at right. Jung, a former Manhattan Beach resident, was a leading cocaine smuggler in the 1970s and 1980s, and spent almost 20 years in prison before being released in 2014. Photo George Jung surveyed the photographs on the wall. They had been rehung just as they were back in 1968. Did they bring back memories? “I’m quite familiar with those. I probably snorted coke off of every one of them,” Jung said with laugh. Jung, the former Manhattan Beach cocaine smuggler and subject of the 2001 film “Blow,” was back in the South Bay Tuesday night, reconnecting with old friends and reminiscing about old times. He sat down in the barber’s chair at the Tonsorial Parlor, formerly on Highland Avenue near 33rd Street and now operating on Grand Avenue in El Segundo. The reunion unfolded in front of a small film crew working on a forthcoming documentary about Jung and his life. Jung moved to Manhattan Beach from Weymouth, Mass. in the late 1960s. After an initial start smuggling marijuana between here and New England by relying on the South Bay’s burgeoning population of stewardesses, Jung became a U.S…
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