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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Sat Jul 11, 2015, 09:55 AM Jul 2015

Tattooing Embraced Long Ago by New Yorkers

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/nyregion/tattooing-embraced-long-ago-by-new-yorkers.html?_r=0

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Q. Now that summer is here and people are wearing less clothing, the number of people sporting multiple tattoos you see on city streets is really amazing. Does tattooing have a particularly colorful history in New York?

A. Today, the nondescript five-story...
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Tattooing Embraced Long Ago by New Yorkers (Original Post) LiberalElite Jul 2015 OP

It isn't just New York ..coast to coast..ink is everywhere pipoman Jul 2015 #1

"For years, tattoo parlors operated secretively in the city" - mostly openly in the later years... PoliticAverse Jul 2015 #2

pipoman

(16,038 posts)

1. It isn't just New York ..coast to coast..ink is everywhere

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Sat Jul 11, 2015, 10:01 AM

Jul 2015

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

2. "For years, tattoo parlors operated secretively in the city" - mostly openly in the later years...

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 10:11 AM

Jul 2015

it was pretty defacto legalization.

"Now that summer is here and people are wearing less clothing" and you can see the bad decisions many of them have made.

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