Don’t be fooled: These are not modern-day prices. Rather, they were some weekly specials offered in 1973 at the Mr. Max Beauty Training Center. F. Max Brown had a beauty school at 414 S. Main St. at ...

Last winter, we told you, reluctantly, that Mr. Max in Irving had closed, seemingly forever. People loved this place, were deeply passionate about it. But the owner had died; there was no succession ...

Readers who wish their families were more interesting will be hooked, as I was, on Cynthia Voigt’s “Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things,” the first of a planned three-book series featuring an ...