Odessa's Beauty Parlor
Known Name(s)
Odessa's Beauty Parlor
Address
920 Dawson St. Waco, TX
Establishment Type(s)
Beauty Parlor
Physical Status
Extant
Description
One-story wood-frame front-gabled residence.
Detailed History
Odessa Meeks (3/5/1919 in Marlin TX - 10/13/2003 in Dallas TX)
Mrs. Meeks ran a beauty shop for a short time out of her house at 920 Dawson Street in Waco, but moved to Dallas to be a school teacher at the L. G. Pinkston High School. She commuted back to Waco on weekends to join her husband Douglas Meeks until he retired in 1966 from his 30-year career at the Hillcrest Baptist Hospital and he joined Odessa up in Dallas.
City Directories: CD 1948 p541: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1951 p93: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1951 p322: Meeks Douglas orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1953 p110: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1953 p364: Meeks Douglas (Odessa) orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1954 p333: Meeks Douglas (Odessa) orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1954 p107: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1956 p125: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1958 p125: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1958 p400: Meeks Douglas (Odessa B) orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1959 p378: Meeks Douglas (Odessa B) orderly Hillcrest Memorial Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1959 p118: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1960 p58: beauty shops Odessa's Beauty Shop 920 Dawson; CD 1960 p120: Dawson 920 Odessa's Beauty Shop, Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1960 p375: Meeks Douglas (Odessa B) orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1960 p414: Odessa's Beauty Shop (Mrs Odessa B Meeks) 920 Dawson; CD 1961 p385: Meeks Douglas (Odessa B) orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1961 p136: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1962 p394: Meeks Douglas (Odessa B) orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1962 p122: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o); CD 1963 p185: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o) PL3-2170; CD 1963 p403: Meeks Douglas (Odessa B) orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson; CD 1964 p426: Meeks Douglas (Odessa B) orderly Hillcrest Mem Hosp h920 Dawson St; CD 1964 p165: Dawson 920 Meeks Douglas (o) PL3-1719; CD 1965 p463: Meeks Douglas (Odessa B) orderly Hi Bapt Hosp h910 Dawson St (o) PL3-2170; CD 1965 p164: Dawson 920 Stockenberry Allen (o); Dawson 910 Meeks Douglas (o) PL3-2170;
