salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 1, Episode 6 · Aired September 25, 2008
The Loft on Broadway Salon
Long Beach, California
This one survived. It remains in business.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 6 · September 25, 2008 · salon
aired as Tabatha's Salon Takeover
What happened after
Active Facebook and Instagram (2,103 followers, 963 posts) plus a directory listing showing current hours (Mon-Fri 10am-9pm, Sat-Sun 10am-7pm) at 3300 E Broadway.
What happened on the show
The first season returned to Long Beach, California, for this salon takeover, and the episode followed Coffey's established method rather than any one storyline. Her process is the same across the run: she immerses herself in the salon, sizes up the staff and the owner with characteristic bluntness, reshuffles the team where it needs it, and closes with a renovation and reveal. Since no synopsis for this installment survives, we do not reconstruct the specific scenes. What is on the record is the format and the setting, a Broadway salon in Long Beach worked through the show's overnight intervention. Coffey's underlying point held true here as everywhere, that a salon rises or falls on leadership and standards, and that her job was to make an owner face both before the makeover arrived to distract from them.
After the cameras left
The Loft on Broadway is open. Active Facebook and Instagram accounts, the latter with a couple thousand followers and nearly a thousand posts, sit alongside a directory listing showing current hours at the East Broadway address in Long Beach. The current hours and steady social activity make this a high confidence survivor. The Long Beach salon came through its takeover and kept its chairs running years later.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.