"The long hair and beard was a novelty in those days and with a good twenty piece band we would often get return engagements." Estelle Hornbeck memoirs
Band member Frank Rossetta, shows the biggest novelty of the House of David Band - long hair and beards. From 1910 through the 1920s when the road bands were active, the popular style for the rest of the US population, was short hair and shaved faces.
