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1930s Beauty Parlor - January 2017

In the picture below, you will see some of our newly acquired beauty salon artifacts. 

  • On the back wall is an ad for our "Rilling" Perm Machine
  • The ladies sit beneath our Helene Curtis "Empress" Hair Dryer
  • On the right, see our Helene Curtis Cold Wave Machine

Permanent Wave Machine

Prior to the twentieth century, a woman with straight hair who desired curls had to spend hours heating curling irons over a flame or sleep with rags and pins in her hair in order to achieve waves.

 

If she could not attain the desired result this way (or tired of the short-lived effects) she may have used false hair pieces instead.

 

But beginning in the 1920s, women born with flat locks saw new hope for attaining long-lasting curls.

 

Through the promise of science, rather daunting contraptions like this late 1930s permanent wave machine offered "permanent" results via a combination of chemicals and electrically heated clamps.


Video produced by IndianaStateMuseum


 

 

 

 

This display is located 

 

on the second floor of the

 

Dekker Huis / Zeeland Museum

 

M A I N S T R E E T

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Main Floor
  • Second Floor
  • Main Street
    • Clocks
    • Hairdressers
    • 1930s Beauty Parlor
    • Herman Miller
    • Ladies' Apparel
    • Photography
    • Print Shops
    • Public Service
    • Restaurants
    • Shoes and Shoe Repair
  • The Grounds

WINTER HOURS

MARCH 2018

Saturdays  10 AM to 2 PM

 

SUMMER HOURS          

APRIL - OCTOBER              

Thursdays   10 AM to 5 PM

Saturdays   10 AM to 2 PM 

 

WHERE:  Zeeland Historical Museum, 37 E. Main Ave. 

(616) 772-4079


Links


The Zeeland Record (1893-2006) - requires a Howard Miller library card

Family histories at Calvin College  

Zeeland Cemetery - findagrave


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