A dozen customers lined up outside the Three-13 Salon, Spa & Boutique in suburban Atlanta on Friday morning, each standing six feet apart and eagerly awaiting their first haircuts or colorings since the coronavirus pandemic forced Georgia to lock down.
Tracy Collie styles Roberta Skivicki's hair at Three-13 Salon, Spa and Boutique, during the phased reopening of businesses and restaurants from coronavirus disease restrictions in the state, in Marietta, Georgia, U.S., April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Bita Honarvar
The scene - like others playing out across Georgia - was part of a test case in the reopening of the slumbering U.S. economy a month after stay-at-home orders were put in place across most of the country. But at Three-13 salon, which has been in business for more than four decades, co-owner and manager Lester Crowell decided it was time to get back to work. He said he consulted with his 85-member staff during a meeting held in the parking lot that he ran from the back of a pickup truck, megaphone in hand, and found all but a few supported reopening.
“I haven’t had my roots dyed in a month. Look there’s what, an inch of gray showing?” said Doss, a retired office worker. “I had to wear a hat everywhere I went.”
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