Naperville resident Patty Jech shows Artistic Creations Owner Terry Hayes a photo of her grandkids before getting her hair cut at Hayes' shop at 22 w. Jefferson in Downtown Naperville on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
Artistic Creations Owner Terry Hayes cleans up after a client at her shop at 22 w. Jefferson in Downtown Naperville on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
Artistic Creations Owner Terry Hayes talks to Denise Holmes of Oswego, about her hair cut at Hayes' shop at 22 w. Jefferson in Downtown Naperville on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
Artistic Creations Owner Terry Hayes cuts Patty Jech's hair at her shop at 22 w. Jefferson in Downtown Naperville on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
Artistic Creations at 22 w. Jefferson in Downtown Naperville on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
In this photo from 1917, the building at 22 W. Jefferson Ave. is to the east of the Western United sign. | Submitted
In this image from 1968, the building with Jan's Gift House includes what will become a salon in the farthest east section of that building, before the white building that is next to La Sorella's stone building. | Submitted
Joni Hirsch Blackman, columnist for The Naperville Sun
It might not be the smallest ground-level shop in downtown Naperville, but it must be the narrowest. Still, Terri Hayes really wanted that shop that’s barely wider than its doorway. She would walk by the little nook, really, that is 22 W. Jefferson Ave., every …
