When Betty Savage began styling hair, pin curls and upsweeps were all the rage.
Now, 58 years later, her clients have grown older with her, and the hairstyles have evolved along the way. The bobby-pinned hairdos have been replaced with a wash, a trim, a style, and every three months, a perm.
Savage always had a knack for fixing people’s hair, and even after recently celebrating her 90th birthday, she hasn’t lost the touch.
She may have the flair for hair now, but it wasn’t until after she worked at Delco for 10 years she decided the factory life wasn’t for her. She enrolled in beauty college and got her license in June of 1956.
Around the same time, her home was being built and her beauty shop was added in the breezeway between the house and the garage. Once it was finished, Savage was open for business.
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