Chattanooga News-Free Press file photo via ChattanoogaHistory.com / Hixson High School band majorettes are shown outside the old high school on Gadd Road in 1963. The school was moved to its current location off Hixson Pike in 1966.
It no doubt took a few curlers to sculpt the hair of the young women in the accompanying 1963 photo. Hair styles of the period, with "heavy bangs and voluminous curls," were influenced by French film star Brigitte Bardot, according to online fashion sources.
