{"id":6422,"date":"2012-08-24T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T16:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:01:08","slug":"ahead-of-the-curves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/ahead-of-the-curves\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of the Curves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 2012<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<h3>So much for lobsters and whoopie pies. Elizabeth Arden broke new ground when she made Maine the cradle of the <em>day<\/em> <em>spa<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<p>By David Svenson<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<p>In Mount Vernon, where Watson and Castle Island roads meet, Elizabeth Arden\u2019s Maine Chance Health Spa, est.\u00a01934, was years ahead of the expansive spa market. While Manhattanites visited her Red Door salon on Fifth Avenue, calls for Judy Garland and Ava Gardner to begin their wax treatments echoed across the northern tip of Long Lake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/ahead%20of%20curves.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aheadofcurves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6457\" title=\"aheadofcurves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aheadofcurves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aheadofcurves.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aheadofcurves-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2012<br \/>\nSo much for lobsters and whoopie pies. Elizabeth Arden broke new ground when she made Maine the cradle of the <em>day spa<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-the-women-of-maine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}