Thinks happen: Curl Up and Dye

Curl Up and Dye.

Every beauty operator that ever used this phrase maybe thinks its the first time the pun was ever used.

Well, maybe not.

This page originally appeared in 2007.

Time for an update.

We stopped at an Estate Sale in Tulia, Texas, population about 5 thousand. A long-time hair stylist had kept a very successful beauty shop in a converted garage at his home. He had just died.

The items of the home and the business were all for sale. My wife found a lovely blue bottle. I found a single photograph lying on a counter.

A nice lady, a beauty operator herself, was presiding over the sale. She sold us the bottle but wouldn’t charge us for the photograph. She even added bit of free information about it.

The picture is from about 1960. The man in the red jacket standing on the parade float, is the shop owner when he was about 40. He is pictured here working on a hair style for his wife who died some years ago.

The rest of the riders on the parade float were all employees at the time. The occasion for the parade is unknown but it must have been a major holiday. There is a Ferris wheel in the background in what was probably an empty field at the time, just off the town square. It could be a county fair. County Fairs are important events in small southwestern towns.