Susan Bundlie

<<I vote for "How to use google.com."
I'm just a few minutes behind knowing everything--I just have to figure out
what to put in the search box.>>

I love and adore Google--I even love the name, and how the "o" stretches out
to make room for each new page.

Last night I spent about two hours looking for information that I couldn't
find, though. I'm writing a script for the book Pollyanna and I'd like to
find out when beauty parlors started showing up in small towns (Pollyanna is
set in Vermont in 1910). I tried "beauty parlors 1900" and "beauty shops
1900" and "first beauty parlors" and "beauty history" and "hairstyling
history" and myriad other things. I got, once in awhile, something that
would suggest when they started, like a reference to permanent waves (which
I assume probably wouldn't be at home), but nothing definitive.

Does anyone just happen to know?

Susan

Jorgen & Ann

You might just try using "permanent wave." I think they were invented in
the teens. I know one machine at least was invented by a black woman who
founded a whole beauty-type empire, sorry I can't remember her name. I
would guess they would be a factor in the rise of the beauty parlor because
it took hours and hours to have one done and a big ole machine they hooked
up to your head (from what I remember my grandma telling me).

Ann

>Last night I spent about two hours looking for information that I couldn't
>
>find, though. I'm writing a script for the book Pollyanna and I'd like to
>
>find out when beauty parlors started showing up in small towns (Pollyanna is
>
>set in Vermont in 1910). I tried "beauty parlors 1900" and "beauty shops
>
>1900" and "first beauty parlors" and "beauty history" and "hairstyling
>
>history" and myriad other things. I got, once in awhile, something that
>
>would suggest when they started, like a reference to permanent waves (which
>
>I assume probably wouldn't be at home), but nothing definitive.
>
>
>
>Does anyone just happen to know?
>
>
>
>Susan
>
>
>
>
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In a message dated 2/13/02 7:43:34 AM, strandbe@... writes:

<< I'd like to
find out when beauty parlors started showing up in small towns (Pollyanna is
set in Vermont in 1910). >>

Oooh!! I just read something about hair dryers and can't remember where.
This history of hair dryers "like they used in the beauty parlors," it said,
and they were first unheated, just air.

Did you try "beautician" or "hair stylists" too?

There were starting to be phones then. But there weren't phone BOOKS yet, I
don't think--you just asked the operator to connect you. And a beauty parlor
might not have had a phone.

Newspapers had advertising, though, and if you can find a newspaper whole....

Or a high school annual with ads...

Or a ninety year old woman.

I have a friend who's a historian, local to here, but she might know. She
mostly knows the history of buildings in Albuquerque. She's a
photo-archivist, not really a historian, but she works at a history museum,
doing history. <g>

Sandra

Nancy Wooton

on 2/13/02 7:12 AM, Jorgen & Ann at stargate@... wrote:

> I know one machine at least was invented by a black woman who
> founded a whole beauty-type empire, sorry I can't remember her name.

Madam C. J. Walker.

This is an example of how people *actually* learn and remember stuff, as
opposed to the linear time-line memorization dogma; I never heard her name
until yesterday, when it was mentioned in the cartoon strip, "Jump Start."

My dd and I were watching "Today" this morning, as they did a feature on the
Zamboni. Did you know people can go to "Zamboni camp," kind of like
baseball fantasy camp? That each event at the Olympics requires a different
kind of ice, that there is even a difference in the ice of speed skating
sprints and long-distance races, and that the 4,000 ft. elevation makes for
better ice, since there is less oxygen in the water molecules? Or that the
curling venue adds droplets of water to its ice sheet, in a process called
"pebbling"? I added my own knowledge of Zambonis in conversation with dd,
telling her how I learned the word from "Peanuts," and how Charles Schultz
owned an ice rink and drove his own Zamboni.

Learning is uncircumscribed. Or, "Everything is Educational."

Nancy

duckfordu

I know where I read about the hair dryer!

On the CD of David MacCaulay's "The Way Things Work," which I bought
at the flea market, which Holly put in the other day and walked away
from. I came in and was clicking pictures (mostly the musical
instruments/physics stuff) but something was talking about tools. It
was on a timeline, the hair dryer stuff!

Sa

Susan Bundlie

> I have a friend who's a historian, local to here, but she might know. She
> mostly knows the history of buildings in Albuquerque. She's a
> photo-archivist, not really a historian, but she works at a history museum,
> doing history. <g>

I just got back from a theater meeting and we decided not to have a beauty
parlor after all, so don't hurry to find out anything on my account. I'm
curious now, but I can't afford the time to search anymore since it's not
information that I really need at this point.

One of the articles I ran across while searching said that before hair
dryers, some parlors used to have women put their heads on the window sill
and let their hair hang down outside in the breeze to dry. They'd switch
their position every once in awhile to dry all sides. People walking by
could often tell who's hair was being washed because they recognized the
color. Hey! I could look up the history of hair dryers and salons would have
to pre-date them. Back in a minute....

.....I'm back. Here's what I found:

"In the early 1900's, it was quite common to walk down a street and see a
long length of hair hanging out the window. As there were no hair dryers in
those days, salons resorted to simply opening the window and offering their
client's a chair.

In 1920, the first true hair dryer came on the market, but it was extremely
large and heavy, and frequently overheated. Handles were often made of
wood."

Same information, but this time it came with dates. I think it's safe to say
that beauty parlors were around in 1910.

Susan

Dan Vilter

On 2/13/02 9:48 AM, "Nancy Wooton" <Felicitas@...> wrote:

> I added my own knowledge of Zambonis in conversation with dd,
> telling her how I learned the word from "Peanuts," and how Charles Schultz
> owned an ice rink and drove his own Zamboni.
>
> Learning is uncircumscribed. Or, "Everything is Educational."

A couple of years ago I learned that Zambonis were made in Sunny Southern
California! What a hoot.

http://www.zamboni.com/story/story.html

I also like the way the Google logo changes to reflect current events and
historic anniversaries. Click on the logo on Boxing day to find a wealth of
information about it. Today you would be off to 477,000 sites about the
Winter Olympics.

-Dan Vilter