2019 Potato Day at Centennial Village Museum
FOR RELEASE: Greeley, CO -- Since 1894 Greeley has been celebrating one of the most delicious root vegetables, the potato. The Friends of the Greeley Museums will pay their annual homage to the potato with Potato Day September 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Centennial...
Unmentionable: The Indiscreet Stories of Artifacts
FOR RELEASE: Greeley, CO -- The Greeley History Museum is proud to present “Unmentionable: The Indiscreet Stories of Artifacts” from August 24, 2019 to July 14, 2020. The exhibition explores some of the unusual, icky, disturbing, awful, uncomfortable and surprising...
Reclaiming Our Heritage
FOR RELEASE: Greeley, CO -- What does it mean to hold on to your own cultural heritage? If you lose your heritage, how do you find it again? The Greeley History Museum, 714 8th St., presents “Reclaiming Our Heritage” a look into ways cultural groups lose their...
October 1930 found Betty's Beauty Parlor comfortably situated in its new quarters, Suites 4 and 5, in the Central building over Woolworths. An article in the Greeley Tribune offered the opinion that “Betty's Beauty Parlor presents one of the prettiest sights in the business section.” Featured at Betty's Beauty Parlor was a new all-steam waving machine, entirely new to the profession in the west and “exclusive to Greeley.” Proprietors Sam and Betty Cooner trained “back east” on the use of the all-steam permanent waving machine; you may see one quite like it in the Unmentionable exhibit.
Image: Black's Beauty Salon & Black's Fashion Shoppe, owned by Anna and George Black, was located at 820 9th St., Greeley. Photograph taken on July 18, 1944.
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