European Renaissance era terminology. Originally, a place you went to talk/discuss. If that don't describe the average (especially southern) beauty parlor, I don't know what does.Lynyrd wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:33 pm In my neck of the woods, a "Salon" is a place where women go to get their hair cut. I guess I'll have to admit that I am ignorant (uneducated) on what or who "Salon" is in current day culture. I won't say "modern" day culture, because the word modern tends to mean better and more advanced. But much of our culture now days is not more advanced, just more inane and ignorant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)