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Have you ever felt as if your future was
predestine? Looking back to 1967 and earlier, I
can see now that God was directing me to be a
hair stylist. I got my hair set every Thursday
morning at 7am by the Most Creative Stylist in
Richmond, MO. I would watch her work and go
home and duplicate the hair style on my
relatives and neighbors. My stylist earned
$3.00 per set, I received .25 to free.
After being laid off from my job of 8 years on
my daughter's 8th birthday, one of the local
barbers ask me to enter Barber School and
work in his new shop. My response was " I want
a good sitting down, good benefit job with 4
week vacation. I just don't want to work as hard
as my stylist or you." By the fall of 1975, an
offer of this "So called great JOB" had not come
in. But the offer to work for White's Barber
Shop was still open. By March 1976, a graduate
of Ferrell Academy and new lady barber in town.
By May ' 78, a realtor customer wanted me to
look at a salon that was available. Again I
told destiny " I wasn't interested." But within
the month, I was asking a loan officer customer
if I could do this. He gave me all the
encouragement I needed to take the plunge of
owner, manager & barber stylist at 114 S.
Thornton. May 1978, Peggy's Barber Salon opened
with 1 barber and 3 cosmetologist. As we grew
and our customers were waiting in their cars to
be able to get a seat in Peggy's, we moved to
201 E. Lexington. Within 5 yrs, I had 5 units
rented at that location ( 1st tanning & nail
salon in Richmond ,a fitness center, and hair
salon).
Again destiny knocked at my door, the owner of
my present location, 212 S. Shaw St. offered me
a deal I couldn't refuse. It was going to
require a lot of renovation and this is where
the "J" of JP'S comes in. My husband, Jr., and
my brother-in-law, Paul, was my engineers to
build JP'S TOTAL IMAGE. Now I could have my
tanning, nail, hair salons and fitness center in
the same building.
30 yrs have gone by and many hair stylist that
started at JPS have gone on to their own
successful career's in hairstyling and a few
have retired from the hair industry. We have
watched parents bring in their babies for
their 1st hair cut and those babies now bring in
their babies. There has been many good changes
for JPS through these past years and "THANKS
GOES TO OUR GREAT CLIENTELE (past & present)
FOR OUR SUCCESSFUL DESTINY....With extreme
sincerity......Peggy Hackett
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