{"id":4996,"date":"2010-12-02T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2010-12-02T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T13:56:25","slug":"small-salon-big-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/small-salon-big-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Member of the Month: Small Salon, Big Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Cass is no newcomer to the indoor tanning business.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Cass first started in the business back in 1978. He opened Le Soleil, the first business of its kind in Coconut Grove, Fla., \u201cas a lark,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sold bathing suits, mineral oil-based tanning lotions, sunglasses and breath mints. In those days you skated around outdoors half-naked, stopped at beer bars, met members of the opposite sex and inevitably came in to \u2018top off\u2019 your tan.\u201d Educational material was non-existent, he says. \u201cIt was a party seven days a week.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/smarttan.epubxpress.com\/link\/TANT\/2010\/dec\/48?s=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;&#8230;READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Member_ofthe_month.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4997\" title=\"Member_ofthe_month\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Member_ofthe_month.jpg\" alt=\"Member_ofthe_month\" width=\"224\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Cass is no newcomer to the indoor tanning business. In fact, Cass first started in the business back in 1978. He opened Le Soleil, the first business of its kind in Coconut Grove, Fla., \u201cas a lark,\u201d he says. \u201cWe sold bathing suits, mineral oil-based tanning lotions, sunglasses and breath mints. In those days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tanning-trends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Member of the Month: Small Salon, Big Service - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Howard Cass is no newcomer to the indoor tanning business. In fact, Cass first started in the business back in 1978. 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