Nancy Tilton, owner of Dee’s Golden Door since 1984
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Nancy Tilton, owner of Dee’s Golden Door since 1984
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Customers Yvonne Potter (left) and Beulah Dennis
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Customers Yvonne Potter (left) and Beulah Dennis
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Jeanette, 87, has worn the same Dee’s upsweep for 20 years
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Jeanette, 87, has worn the same Dee’s upsweep for 20 years
She slips into Dee’s Golden Door at the same time each Monday morning. Slender and stylish, she’s north of 70, though by how much, one doesn’t ask. It’s not important; the reason she’s here has less to do with age than with an era—a time when the weekly hair appointment at a place like Dee’s was a commitment as ironclad as the resulting hairstyle. This morning, the ritual involves transforming a head of sparse, straight white hair into a corona of hibiscus-colored curls, the kind of five-l…
