When Leif Vasstrom opened the Midnight Sun in 1978, it was the second tanning salon in Manhattan and an immediate sensation. Cher and Carly Simon darkened the threshold during his first week of ...

When tanning salons first started dotting the landscape in the late 1970s, all proprietors needed was an empty room, ultraviolet light bulbs, some silver reflective paper and customers. Instant bus… ...