Comments on: Vintage pink beauty shop dryer chairs

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:08:25 +0000

Hey Maryanne,love the chairs,im a hairdresser & had a dryer that had a pointed dome for the top,had it more for looks as it would blow the curlers right of your head!Anyways you said you have a nutone intercom,so do we with a radio,we have little plugins all over the house,but cannot find the right plugins for the speakers,would you know anything about that?

By: Tammie

Tammie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:40:47 +0000

Pam,
I shouldn’t have said anything about bursting your bubble!! The pink really is cool. I had a salon in a retirement salon and I had 2-3 chairs purring all day long! When I was a little girl I just loved going to the beauty shop with my grandma while she got her hair done.
The ladies would have coffee and read the ” movie magazines”.
I thought this was so fun! Working in a beauty shop is a great job, just hard on the feet after all these years!

By: pam kueber

pam kueber — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:36:59 +0000

Oh well. But my bubble still’s not burst. Goes to show what pink vinyl will do!

By: atomicbowler-Laura

atomicbowler-Laura — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:45:14 +0000

My parents were both hairdressers (Dad only part-time while not a mechanic for American Airlines), so during 1970-71 we had a beauty shop in our garage. I remember them having 2 hairdryer chairs similar to these. What fun it all was to see what color the old ladies would pick for their grey hair – pink, blue or purple! The chairs, by the way, were gold metalic vinyl which made the pink haircolor ‘pop’!

By: Tammie

Tammie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:26:05 +0000

I hate to burst your bubble, but after working in a salon for 30+ years, these are just recovered chair dryers. They could be about 20 years old, but not more than that. I have to agree with Robert, the hood looks too new. Most beauty colleges have some vintage dryers tucked away somewhere though! If you look for them they should not be that hard to find.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:34:18 +0000

Hello,

You know, to me these look like reproductions. A) Look at the back and the metal that looks like “today”. It seems like back in the day the back would be black or metal like versus these that appear to be painted with brown metallic metal paint.

Also from being at the beauty shop and seeing lots of these, the plastic part that goes over your head, well on this one it looks like a more “today” design.

My consensus maybe wrong is these are newer reproductions.

Regards,
Robert

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:52:08 +0000

So adorable! I just sent them to my hairdresser so she can drool over them haha!

xo
Jennifer

By: Tut

Tut — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:10:33 +0000

My Mom ran a beauty shop out of the house for many years. This reminded me of the green lounge dryer chair that is probably still in their basement. The ladies could actually put their feet up while under the dryer. There are 2 metal brackets on the back where a portable stand–mounted dryer could be “permanently” attached. Not sure if she still has the original dryer, which was a big metal behemoth with grey crinkle paint, some chrome or polished stainless, and yellowing plastic lower extension.

If the chair is still around, I definitely need to find a place for it in our house. It’s make a great headphone–listening chair.

By: patty

patty — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:54:53 +0000

Very cool chairs – I miss seeing those old-school beauty salons with women waiting under the row of dryers and reading the gossip magazines!

By: Juju

Juju — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:59:09 +0000

Magnifique!