Saga of the Sanpitch Vol 24

La Marguerite Beauty Shop

window and a door that opened in from the east. On the right side was a tree horse for patrons to hang their winter wraps. early in the morning, Marguerite would leave her home and §o to the shop to start a fire in a stove equipped with the shop opened at 10 a.m. and earlier if some patron needed a speclal favor done« Marguerite would dasn D3Ck and she would be ready for the day. Hers was a barber and beauty shop. When she made cut was too short, she told them it would grow back in a few days. In the southwest corner of the shop was the sink where patrons would get their hair washed to begin the transformation that Marguerite would perform on her customers. The shop had two tables with mirrors for the patrons to watch the skill of Marguerite as the have been working there . The permanents were done in a much more complicated way than they are done today. The permanent was made than the average person. A central steel pole went up myriad of clamps that individjally fit onto a separate pole with an electrical wire that could be pulled the distance to the head and then electrically heated. day, but instead of the plastic rollers that are used 65