The Beauty Bar New York

You would be forgiven for thinking that Beauty Bar, the salon-turned-saloon, is much older than it actually is. Though it opened in 1995 in Manhattan’s East Village, the bar also retains some of the original furnishings from its past life as a salon, including barbershop chairs and helmet-style chrome dome hair dryers from the 1950s and 1960s. Meanwhile, vintage perfumes, dating as early as the 1920s, and canisters of Aqua Net, the aerosol hair spray developed in the 60s, line the shelves.