She’s 53 now, part of the youngest batch of baby boomers. “My old barber retired, and I walk into this new place and before you know it I’m talking to this former dancer who also worked for the magician Lance Burton.”Īt Spargo’s suggestion, I found his hair stylist, Jeanne Laubscher, at Salon Chic and Barber on Sun City Boulevard. “You just never know who you’re going to run into in Las Vegas,” said Spargo, a Sun City Summerlin resident who was a commercial airline pilot for 30 years before retiring. So when 85-year-old Jack Spargo found out that a woman who performed with “Les Folies Bergere” at the Tropicana was cutting his hair, he was amazed. Her legs and come-hither smile - they never seem to end - remain a fixture of glossy PR campaigns selling the world on a vacation in the Nevada desert. (Brett Le Blanc/Las Vegas Review-Journal) today, when there are few of the flesh-and-feather shows that helped build Las Vegas into the Entertainment Capital of the World, the showgirl remains a symbol of Las Vegas. Jeanne Laubscher colors the hair of Katherine Webb at Salon Chic and Barber in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan.
