kylegrey Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Freddy Negrete . slayer9019, Kev, David Flores and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysmall13 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 i love all these older tattoo pics reminds me of my childhood when i fell in love with tattooing seeing all my fathers friends at the American Legion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegrey Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 The Dream Team , Reinke , Horiyoshi iii , Whitehead , Hardy , Lehi , unsure of the other cat . sboyer and Graeme 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogg Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Pretty sure the other cat is Colin Stevens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sboyer Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Floyd Samson tattooed by Milton Zeis When researching the Zeis book I came across a fair amount of info about Floyd Samson. He was mostly a circus and carnival tattooer. Met Zeis working with the Cole Bros circus. Stayed in contact for the rest of Zeis's life. He settled down in Rockford in his later years. From my understanding helped Milt keep the supply company going for a while. Zeis's daughter was worried something bad happened to him because he just disappeared one day and they never heard from him after that. I assume he got the traveling bug but who knows. I will have to do some digging and see if I can find any info about where and when he died. His flash is really folk art looking but very cool. I would love to have a sheet of it. Sheet below was on ebay some time last year. MadeIndelible, hogg, Kev and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer9019 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Tattoo Convention in the Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh Pa in the Mid 90's Pittsburgh Hilton | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Kev, YOMONEY, gougetheeyes and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougetheeyes Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 Tattoo Convention in the Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh Pa in the Mid 90'sPittsburgh Hilton | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Wowowow this rules! slayer9019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 scan0047 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! look at these fucking hipsters.... CultExciter, slayer9019, Dan S and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadeIndelible Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 San Francisco. Taken from a National Geographic magazine from April of 1932. No name given for the tattooer or the tattooed. I may be mistaken, but I think there are some more photos of tattoos done by the tattooist in the photo in that volume of Nat Geo. Some copies are being sold on eBay. sboyer, Our Endless Days, Shannon Shirley and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Our Endless Days Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Tattoo Convention in the Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh Pa in the Mid 90'sPittsburgh Hilton | Flickr - Photo Sharing! These are so cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irezumi Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 scan0047 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!look at these fucking hipsters.... awesome. Iwar, Kev, Duffa and 12 others 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 @irezumi, That man has definitely killed people. With his beard. Accidentally. Duffa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irezumi Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 I'm sure that at some point somewhere that has really happened. slayer9019 and Jack 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Our Endless Days Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 some of the people in those pics definitely look hardened by life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan S Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 some of the people in those pics definitely look hardened by life. Shocking! slayer9019, Jack and Shannon Shirley 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 that bearded biker guy has some really nice dragonheads going on there! i like! Kev 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiling.politely Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I can't remember if anyone else has posted these, but I came across this at an antique store a week or so ago. From the March 11, 1946 issue of Life Magazine. I'll upload some closer photos to my photo gallery in a few minutes... Mitch Wood, gougetheeyes, Dan S and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Varty Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Some of those chicks in those photo albums look a wee bit haggard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Stratford Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Loads of old russian prison tattoos in this article - A rare article worth reading in the otherwise awful Daily Mail Symbols of a life of crime: The fading tattoos on Russia's gangland prisoners that can be read like the bearer's criminal underworld CV | Mail Online DJDeepFried, Shannon Shirley, Graeme and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadeIndelible Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 gougetheeyes, Jack, Duffa and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Shirley Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I showed this to fellow tattooer Laz Barath from Budapest, He started tattooing in 95' in Budapest. He has an outsiders perspective of american tattooing,we have very interesting conversation.anyways, he translated some of the imagery,i.e. meanings. Loads of old russian prison tattoos in this article - A rare article worth reading in the otherwise awful Daily MailSymbols of a life of crime: The fading tattoos on Russia's gangland prisoners that can be read like the bearer's criminal underworld CV | Mail Online ChrisvK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegrey Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 WWI memorial tattoo which reads " here lies the flower of my youth " 1922 . Duffa, MadeIndelible, gougetheeyes and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott R Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 I showed this to fellow tattooer Laz Barath from Budapest, He started tattooing in 95' in Budapest. He has an outsiders perspective of american tattooing,we have very interesting conversation.anyways, he translated some of the imagery,i.e. meanings. very cool @Shannon Shirley did he share anything not in the russian encyclopedias? DO the meanings still hold value?(i see alot of knifes through neck on instagram ) There is one image from one of the books I would love to get Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadeIndelible Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 tattoo by Ole Hansen hogg, Duffa, Kev and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougetheeyes Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 tattoo by Ole Hansen Bailey looks good in that photo :D semele, mtlsam and MadeIndelible 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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