And the typewriter would be there and Bob would tap on it for a while, and then somebody would go downstairs and check on the equipment. Then finally everybody would go down the pink stairs.” ...

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Niki Delis says it felt like the grief over a loved one's death when she closed down the hair salon her father started at London's Masonville Place four decades ago as one of its first tenants.