Where does the salon name come from? It’s something we're asked about often. Ann and her husband were in an airport headed west to Ann’s hometown with the newfound option to open a salon… But “what would they name it?” Ann asked, Nick, without hesitation, said “Palace Flophouse salon,” and Ann replied, just as quickly, “Sell it to me.” Nick pulled out his phone and read the first paragraph of Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. (read below)

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men” and he would have meant the same thing.”

— CANNERY ROW BY JOHN STEINBECK

Ann, with a twinkle (tear) in her eye said, THAT’S IT, and she bought the domain name right there and it was official. 8 months later we welcomed our first client into a space all about inclusion and a come as you are approach. Almost a decade later we still carry this philosophy. We welcome you to the Flophouse.