Electric Chair Closed Temporarily – Re-Opening ‘Just Days Away’ Under New Ownership

Frank Gormlie December 3, 2019 Leave a Comment 0 Likes 295 Views

Tuesday, December 3, the Electric Chair – one of OB’s mainstay hair salons – is closed and locked up. A hand-written sign taped on the glass says “Closed Tuesday 12/3/19 – Open on Wednesday 12/4/19“.

Sign taped to glass. All photos by Joaquin Antique.

Yet over one of the large main windows hangs a banner that boldly states:

“New Ownership – Grand Re-Opening Just Days Away!”

That’s all we know – and we can state with ease that we among many OBceans and others are happy to see that the business will remain open. It was two weeks ago the OB Rag suggested the storefront salon – one of the favored businesses on Newport – may close. (Which BTW, for which we caught holy hell from some readers.) If a business is going to host a “re-opening”, then it must have been closed for more than one day, we have to note.

The Electric Chair closed up. (If you notice plywood over Apogee’s window, it’s because a window was broken accidentally.)

Author: Frank Gormlie

A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.