My best friend and I used to go to "Nicholas"(just Nicholas-no last name)in San Francisco for years. It started because we both used to model for him when he owned a beauty school-pardon me,academy-near where we lived. Then he closed the "academy" and opened a salon in San Francisco,so every six weeks we would take the bay Area rapid Transit and spend the day there,getting our hair cut,having lunch and shopping. It was fun,but not cheap. Neither of us ever walked out of his salon for less than $100 and sometimes it was closer to $200. At least for me-she never did perms or color,maybe just a cellophane at most. I had perms sometimes,went bright red once (I`m blonde)and often got the bottom of my bi-level cut dyed magenta (I`m calling it a bi-level,but in realty,it was a mullet. This was back in the 80s,after all....
Nowadays,I pay 30 dollars.