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Hairdressers and hair salons
What's on this page:
- 20th-century hairdressers and hair salons
The photo at the top corner of the page shows Anna Mae Kushma's hair salon.
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What is here is a list that has been on my website for awhile, woefully incomplete. Following that, there are two short lists of hairdressers who were listed in the 1928-1929 and 1940 Freeland directories.
HAIR SALONS, BEAUTY SALONS
[Thanks to Ed Merrick, Pat Ferko Miller, Marie Chuckra Payne, John N. for additions and corrections. The 1940 census notes come from Ed Merrick, too.]
Bonevich's - 623 Vine St.
Nan Brogan's Beauty Shoppe - 200 block of Washington Street
Suzanne Carr - Centre St.
Fellin's Beauty Salon -
530 Centre St. (1943 ad from Ed Merrick)Anna Kraynock - 306 Centre St., beautician, beauty shop (age 30 in 1940 Census)
Anna Mae Kushma - Centre St.
Michele Mahovich - Centre St., next to the Borough Building and across the street from St. Ann's
Leona Mattis - Centre & Luzerne Streets, above and behind her husband Jakie's bar
Matilda Merola - 242 Centre St., beautician, beauty shop (age 19 in 1940 Census)
Leona Nagy's Beauty Shop - 704 Birkbeck Street
Mary Ann Nowak Beauty Salon - 511 Centre Street (from 1986 St. Casimir's booklet via Ed Merrick)
Sue Pelot - Carbon St., between Centre & Washington Streets
Elsie Peterson - 706 Main Street
Mary Sarna - 621 Main St., beautician, employer (age 43 in 1940 Census)
Tommy's Beauty Salon -
822 Front St. - "Where soft, luxuriant permanents styled in the
Hollywood manner by Tommy, can be yours" (from Ed Merrick, 1939 ad)Edna Van Horn - 1028 Birkbeck St., beautician, own shop (age 25 in 1940 Census)
Wilkinson's Salon of Beauty and Electrolysis - 833 South St. (Jean, hairstylist; Kimberly, stylist) (from 1986 St. Casimir's booklet via Ed Merrick)
Violet Williams - 923 Birkbeck St., beautician, own place (age 33 in 1940 Census)
1928-1929 city directory
Hairdressers in business listings: [this is the earliest directory I've seen that lists hairdressers]
Higgins, Cath. A. - 635 Center
Petrilli, Salvatore G. - 509 Center
1940 city directory
Hairdressers in business listings:
Carr, Susan M. -
544 Walnut Kraynock, Anne G. - 306 Centre
Merely, Matilda M. - 250 Centre
Peterssen, Elsie - 706 Main
Pinegar, Verna - 533 Hemlock
Sarna, Mary H. - 621 Main
Sweeney, Thos. V. - 822 Front
Williams, Violet A. - 923 Birkbeck
The article shown above left is dated 3-9-1939 and comes from Sean Carr, who wrote: "My sweet Aunt Nan Brogan (nee Suzanne Carr), my father's oldest sister, ran her beauty shop in her home at 210 Washington Street until she retired. Found this article in the Hazleton Plain Speaker, dated 9 March, 1939, when she first opened her shop in my grandparents' home on Walnut Street." The ad is also from 1939 and comes from Ed Merrick.
The photo at the top corner of the page shows Anna Mae Kushma's hair salon.