By Margaret Hicks
Eagle Staff Writer
mhicks@theoklahomaeagle.net
Scores of family members and friends of Dr. Alene Young and the late Dr. Lorean Laws poured out, in the intermittent rain, for the unveiling of the street sign in their name, on Thursday May 11, 2017.
MLK, Jr. Blvd. & Woodrow Place has been officially renamed “Drs. Laws and Young Blvd. (Dolls). Drs. Laws & Young’s Beauty Palace opened on the southwest corner of this intersection in 1969. Laws & Young trademarked their million-dollar fashion show production Dolls, Dolls, Dolls. A few of the Dolls were present for the unveiling and dinner. When in town, the Ebony Fashion Fair would use Laws & Young models.
Two Years In The Making
Renaming this street corner began more than two years ago, during the lifetime of Laws, while Mayor Dewey Bartlett and Counselor Jack Henderson were in office. The project came full circle to completion under the Bynum administration. Counselor Vanessa Hall-Harper and former Counselor Henderson were on hand for the unveiling and the program and dinner which took place afterwards at Vernon AME Church on Greenwood Avenue.
Doll, Dolls, Dolls Again?
Young has been asked by more than one person to put on another production of Dolls, Dolls, Dolls; she said “no, it’s too much work, and many of the people who helped are now gone.”
