Still Crispy and Clean

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Le Old School Ink

03.15.13 @ 00:51♥11814

R.I.P.P.G.M. Marco Meloni

11.11.12 @ 21:20♥6

Le Little Snake Charmer 7:45AM - First drawing of the day done. A little snake charmer girl

11.06.12 @ 15:21♥57

Le Eagle Girl Back Piece  Bailey Hunter Robinson

11.06.12 @ 15:13♥11

Le R.H. Wells Sleeve Ron Henry Wells

11.06.12 @ 14:33♥20

Le Bert Grimm Bert Grimm (1900-1985) Bert Grimm started hanging around tattoo shops in Portland Oregon when he was about 11 or 12 years old, and the shops of Sailor Gus, Sailor George and Charlie Western became his home away from home. Bert was given his first tattooing outfit in 1912 and for the next 70 plus years Bert Grimm was a fixture in the tattoo world. Early in his career, he spent a season with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Throughout the years he operated shops in Chicago, Honolulu, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Long Beach, St Louis, Portland and Seaside Oregon, and China. Bert worked with some of the greats in the business, including Domingo Gulang, Charlie Barr, Tatts Thomas, Red Gibbons, Walter Torun, Bob Shaw, and Col Todd, to name a few. Bert is probably best remembered today for the shop that he operated at the Nu Pike in Long Beach, CA from the 1950s to the late 60s. The Nu Pike was a large amusement park that goes back to 1897 and was home for dozens of tattooists. Bert Grimm’s World Famous Tattoo was historic. It was the oldest continuously operated tattoo parlor in the continental United States where generations of sailors got inked up before shipping out.  Today the Pike is only a memory but I am glad to say the Bert Grimm tattoo shop located at #22 Chestnut Place, which was in jeopardy of becoming part of a Long Beach condominium development, was purchased in March of 2004 by Kari Barba and two silent partners. Barba plans to turn part of it into a museum about the shop and continue operating it as a tattoo shop.  Bert was inducted into the Tattoo Hall of Fame, then located at the Lyle Tuttle’s Tattoo Art Museum at #30 Seventh Street in San Francisco.  In the later years of his life Bert retired in the small Oregon town of Seaside. He was not able to stay away from the tattoo business so he set up a small tattoo shop in his home. In a letter written to Paul Rogers during this time Bert stated that he did about 10 tattoos a week out of his house. 

11.02.12 @ 19:45♥129

Le Rose Pin Up LM Knight @lmknight

11.02.12 @ 19:44♥11

Le Sooner Than You Think new order tattoo! thanks, mike adams.

10.20.12 @ 18:41♥13846

Le Cobra Flash By JB Marks For sale here

10.19.12 @ 21:18♥57

Le Nurse Flash New Flapper print at Parlor Tattoo Prints! Quyen Dinh

10.14.12 @ 18:58♥288

Le Flapper Flash Print now available PARLOR TATTOO PRINTS by Quyen Dinh

10.14.12 @ 18:40♥313

Le Raven Flash Flapper and Raven - New print at Parlor Tattoo Prints

10.14.12 @ 18:37♥842

Le Family Portrait 

10.07.12 @ 20:30♥37

Le Butterfly Hands

10.07.12 @ 20:20♥25843

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