Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Kenneth A. Christy

From Graces Guide
March 1939.

of Albemarle Street, London

1939 'The inventor of the Christy Wave, Kenneth A. Christy, has been hailed all over the world as the "American Miracle Barber." This is how he stumbled across the discovery that was to revolutionize hairdressing fashions all over the world. Ten years ago, as the humble barber of Parker's Landing, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Christy was asked to cut the hair of a young footballer....'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Tonbridge Free Press - Friday 24 March 1939