Contributed by Bangor Public Library
Description
WACs attend a beauty salon opened at Dow Air Field. The shop, managed by Verna Cook, whose husband was a sargent assigned to Dow Field and who had previously run a beauty shop for ten years. WACs and Army Nurses no longer had to go into town to gte their hair done; prices were reasonable--a manicure was fifty cents, a shampoo and set eighty five, and a perm four dollars. The shop was outfitted with blue and cream linoleum floors and gold damask drapes; two WACs with beautician training assisted in their off hours.
About This Item
- Title: WAC Beauty Shop, Bangor, 1945
- Creator: Signal Section, Dow Field
- Creation Date: 1945-04-18
- Subject Date: 1945-04-18
- Location: Dow Field, Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 10 cm
- Local Code: 974.131 .D752a v.1
- Collection: Dow Field Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
- Dow Field Hospital (Me.)
- Hairdressing
- World War, 1939-1945--War work
- Dow Air Force Base (Me.)--Facilities
- World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel
- Women--Military service
- Beauty shops--Maine
Other Keywords
- Army Air Corps
- Army Air Force
- Aviation
- Bangor
- Beauty parlor
- Dow Air Force Base
- Dow Field
- Military
- W.A.C.
- WAC
- Women's Army Corps
- World War Two
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