Graphics 201 of Fort Oglethorpe owner Rhonda Thurman sits at her station waiting on clients.Graphics Salon is celebrating 25 years in business and nine years under current owner Rhonda Thurman.
Walking in the salon makes clients feel like they are in a big city because it is so large and well-decorated, according to Thurman.
The salon is now called Graphics 201 and pays tribute to the street number where the salon started, and the new street number too, she said. The current salon is at 201 Patterson Ave. in Fort Oglethorpe. The original salon was at 201 W. Gordon Ave. in Rossville.
“The salon started in October of 1991 under original owner Phyllis Fox,” Thurman said, adding that the salon would not be where it is today without its founders. “My mom Brenda Proctor worked there and bought it from Phyllis not long after it started.”
The salon began with 10 stylists but now has nine. The large building the salon moved to in 2008 spans 2,500 square feet. In recent years, the salon has won first place four times and been a finalist twice for Chattanooga Times Free Press Best of the Best.