Miss Pearl’s Beauty Shop
ome of my fondest memories are of the hours spent in my mother’s beauty shop in Calhoun City, Miss., in the 1930s and 1940s. Before this, “Miss Pearl,” as Mother was known to everyone, had opened a beauty shop in Pittsboro, Miss., in 1946. That’s where she first used the marcel iron, a special curling iron named for Marcel Grateau, a French hairdresser. The Marcel iron made a wave with a deep groove. Mother
