About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, a delivery driver pulled up outside #1 Nails and asked himself aloud, ‘Why does my coffee always taste better here?’ Turns out, every morning the owner’s grandmother would bake fresh cookies for her customers—and our delivery guy just happened to be her secret admirer. Moral of the story? Sometimes your favorite place has more secrets than meets the eye.
2. A little girl walked into #1 Nails with her mother one afternoon. As she waited for her manicure, she kept glancing curiously at the old clock on the wall. Suddenly, its hands seemed to move backwards—just for a second, but long enough for everyone in the salon to notice. The owner, Mrs. Lee, quickly checked the clock and saw it was just an old-fashioned mechanism playing tricks. Everyone laughed it off as nothing serious. When the little girl got her nails done, they turned out perfect—pink with tiny white dots, just like she wanted. The next day, her neighbor stopped by to say that he’d seen the same thing happen earlier that morning while getting his coffee delivered.
3. On an unusually foggy morning in downtown Chicago, customers began noticing something peculiar outside #1 Nails salon. Every time they looked up from their manicures, there would be a mysterious figure, waving frantically from behind the opaque window. Curious patrons started leaning closer to see who it was, but every time they glanced away and back, the figure had vanished into thin air. Finally, a delivery driver joked that maybe it was just the reflection of his own impatient self. Everyone laughed, and soon enough, everyone forgot about the mystery—except for one regular customer who insisted on leaving a tiny mirror next to her nail polish.
4. On a particularly stormy night, a delivery driver pulled up outside #1 Nails and found himself wondering if he’d ever see daylight again. As he approached the door, it suddenly flew open, revealing an old lady with wild eyes. ‘Finally!’ she exclaimed. ‘I was just about to send out the search party.’ Turns out, she mistook his headlights for her granddaughter’s car. The delivery driver left #1 Nails that night with a new appreciation for nail salons—and maybe even a little less skepticism about ghost stories.