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In the fifties, the Netherlands like the rest of Europe, is in the final phase of reconstruction. The horrors of the Second World War have made way for a new conflict: the Cold War. Change follows at a rapid pace. There is business to be done. Mr. F.A.J. Kappé realizes this and starts his own business at Schiphol East. |
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1950 - Kappé opens |
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1953 - Dykes breached in Zeeland/South Holland |
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1953 - First men climb Everest |
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1955 - James Dean dies in car crash |
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1956 - Kappé opens at Schiphol |
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1958 - Barbie makes first appearance at New York Toy Fair |
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The Kappé story begins on 16 January 1950, when Mr F.A.J. Kappé submits an application to the local airport authority to open a barber's shop. He signs the lease for premises on the Stationsplein, beneath Schipholdijk, opposite Schiphol East's passenger terminal. On February1, 1950 he officially opens his one-man business and the facinating story of the F.A.J. Kappé Hairdressing Salon begins.
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Frans regularly takes his box of barber's tools and a bottle of 4711 Eau de Cologne along to the passenger terminal. There, in the gentlemen's toilets, airline passengers can be neatly coiffed and trimmed, and for a little extra they can have a dash of hair lotion. In those days Schiphol Airport has just one building: the Europa Hall. On 16 September, 1951 Cees Kappé joins his Uncle Frans to work as a barber. |
On 1 December, they start to sell perfumes in the Europa Hall; at normal prices those days. 6 years later he opens a ladie's and gentlemen's hairdressing salon in the passenger terminal. It has a meter-long counter, behind which he starts to sell duty-free perfumes. |
