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Edwin Shrake

articles/2014/02/02/the-land-of-the-permanent-wave-is-bud-shrake-s-classic-take-on-60s-texas/150313-stacks-shrake-tease_foxmaz
The Real Beehive State

The Land of the Permanent Wave

In the '60s South, long hair was a signifier and a deal breaker for men. In East Texas, they took this up a notch, as Bud Shrake discovered when Mrs. Shrake got ostracized, too.

Edwin Shrake

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