There's been a Helene Curtis brand chair and dryer making appearances on CL around here (currently not in the listings, though).  The gold naugahyde chair even has the integrated chrome ashtray with hinged lid sunken into one arm. 

For a negotiable $100, it could be fun piece for somebody who has the room.  I was thinking it might be possible to convert the dryer portion into a reading lamp with rope lights or small LEDs.

My Aunt Laveen had a beauty parlor on the front of her house appropriately called "Laveen's" I remember she had two of those dryers along with one of those old curler machines with all the wires attached. When I asked my mom why she never had her hair done at Aunt Laveen's she said "are you kidding, and walk out looking like Shirley Temple? 

Those dryers will be all the rage again if the Ronetts ever make a comeback. They were the "queens of the beehives"...

Prime real estate for nesting black widow spiders.

I wouldn't be surprised if local celebrity and star Bella Da Ball has one of those dryers tucked away in the closet.

Here's the HC chair I mentioned above.

LOL -- no kidding Eddie!  That chair was probably white to begin with!

And yeah, that beauty parlor smell.  You'd think after all these decades they'd have figured out something better.  No wonder my friend who has worked in salons for years can seem so fried at times.