It no doubt took a few curlers to sculpt the hair of the young women in the accompanying 1963 photo. Hair styles of the period, with "heavy bangs and voluminous curls," were influenced by French film star Brigitte Bardot, according to online fashion sources.
Local residents still tell stories about the week in 1973 when the rain kept falling and the waters kept rising. Photographs prove those stories were not exaggerations but a "high water" mark in Chattanooga history.
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