You may have seen me post a picture of my mother’s permanent
wave machine that she used in her Beauty Salon between 1938-1941 in Randolph,
Utah.
Over the years I’ve tried to decide what to do with it. At
one time I thought I’d build a salon and put it in the window. But I never did
that.
I stored it in the barn at the farm, hoping to figure it
out….When we moved here to SS, it moved into our garage. And there it sat…for
nearly 20 years!
Today as I walked past it, a thought came to me to call the Hutchings Museum to see if they would accept it as a donation. They were thrilled! And I was OVER THE MOON excited about it.
We loaded it in the truck and couldn’t close the tail gate
cuz it was so big. I drove 15 mph all the way there with people backed up
behind me. Sorry, not sorry. 
As we got closer I couldn’t contain myself. I was absolutely GIDDY with delight with what had just happened… that I was led to find a place for it; that the museum was open; that the curator was there
; that they were excited to see it; that they unloaded it and then talked with me forever about it. They’d not seen anything like it!
They are working on having a women’s section at the museum
and this will go perfectly in it!!!!
And I am beyond thrilled for that prompting out of the blue
to make that phone call.
I’m still smiling inside and out. It feels SO good to know
that crazy old machine and my mother’s history about it will be preserved for
others to enjoy for the foreseeable future.
I’m just SOOOO happy 
The Hutchings Museum is in Lehi, UT
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