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Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Thelma Brown and Pauline Young

Titles: Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Thelma Brown and Pauline Young (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Thelma Brown attended the Hollywood School, a beauty school in Minneapolis and then worked for ten years in Toledo, Ohio and another ten in Akron, Ohio before returning to Minnesota in the mid-1950s. She then worked in her own shop, Thelma's Beauty Bar, in Minneapolis and worked there for another decade. Pauline Young also attended Hollywood School in the early 1960s. After working as an apprentice, she obtained her manager's license and opened a salon, the Satin Doll. She was married to Sylvester "Chubby" Young, a barber. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Their hairdressing businesses with all African American clientele; the expansion of other African American owned beauty shops and barbershops; working at home; licenses; clientele; what women discussed in the shop with other customers and with the beautician; popular hairstyles of the day; pressing combs; men and stylists; hair pieces and wigs; occasions when people would get their hair done; stories of customers and their hair cuts.

Dates

  • 05/21/1997 (Creation)

Creation

Identifiers

  • Library Call Number: OH 100
  • Accession Number: AV2003.65.3

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 25 pages transcript

Format

  • Content Category: sound recordings
  • Content Category: text

Measurements

  • 01:00:45 running time

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