[Today’s run: 3.4 miles]
I frequently look at the daily Wikipedia.org front page. They have multiple sections of interesting items that change each day.
Today one of the items was a link to the wikipedia biographical page for Mary Jane Odell who was a pioneer woman in broadcasting in Iowa and eventually became the Iowa Secretary of State.
When I was a child I remember that my mother got her hair done at a beauty shop called “Sal’s” or maybe the guy’s name was Sal. And one day we watched Mom modelling a new hair style on TV during the mid-day show hosted by Mary Jane Chin. Later Mary Jane Chin became Mary Jane Odell.
So it was interesting to read in that wikipedia page that Chin/Odell worked at KRNT-TV from 1955 to 1967 when she married Mr. Odell and moved with him to Chicago. Evidently the hair-do TV thing happened before that.
A little Googling yields the information that Sal’s Beauty Salon was at 2000 Grand in a building called the Jefferson Polk mansion. And Sal Salgado is still in Des Moines. He has a page on Facebook.