A trailer parked out back of someone’s home may not be your first choice when it comes to where your stylist is located – most people are likely to pick a salon based on ammenities, location, services, types of shears and scissors including thinning shears, left handed scissors, making sure the stylist has whatever tools are needed! But a trailer has served one woman well for forty years. Lucille Spicer is turning 90, and she has spent many of her days in the beauty shop/trailer behind her home in kansas.
“I’ve done hundreds and hundreds of customers,” Lucille says. It started back in the 1940′s, when Lucille spent six months in the Venus beauty school in Wichita. “We had uniforms made out of white sheets that we ironed. I’m old-fashioned. We did pincurls with hairpins – not bobby pins. You had to really study. We had to know all about muscles and everything inside the head. I had to learn to use brush rollers for the shop. I couldn’t do these young girls of today – no way.”
In her prime Lucille did 10 customers a day six days a week, although she says she has slown down because she is “not very fast,” now. Still, she describes herslef as “Probably the happiest woman in Hazelton.”
