The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 63, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1971 Page: 6 of 36
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday, December 16,1971
Baltimore Down To One Tattoo Parlor
BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) |nup on yeur forearm
VHaarheelU'a mealemieM it ''If* nnt (Kal hiitinAi
Tattoo Charlie's masterpiece is
a MOO multi-colored Chinese
dragon, but the way the skin
art business is these days, he'd dying art form
happi> settle for a <2 mono
It's not that business is bad
now, it’s lousy,” says Charlie, a
practitioner of an apparently
Tattoo Charlie—that’s hit
trade name-considers himself tion’sthirdUrgwtsoapoi t-haz Charlie says he learned to tot-
an artist. His colors are ink, hia
brush an electric needle, his
canvas human flesh.
Tattoos are associated with
sailors, but Baltimore—the na-
Bus Stations At Night
‘Like Keg Of Dynamite
BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) -
The air inside the Greyhound
bus station la cold. Gray 2fccent
lockers line some of the walls
and people pop up and down In
plastic, contour seats a| fl
theafre playing musical chairs,
at one wall there’s a bag-
gage check counter and on the a woman #ent right up those
early shift you’ll find Ernest used to live right over there in
Cahill there-he's been at the parking lot,” Cahill said
Greyhound for 33years.
Yes, this place is like a keg
W dynamite around 11 at night,
if all you have to do is light it,"
sald^^^^^^H
“I remember a long time ago
A SLOW INCREASE
LONDON (AP) - Britain's
population is growing more
slowly than that of other devel-
oped Western nations. By IMS
it is expected to be It per cent
higher than it waa in I960, com-
pared with rises of 38 per cent
in France, 30 per cent in West
—■.stairs ovar thera to thi ladies at Greyhound ever since
Germany, and 66 per cent in built over a Catholic cemetery
the United States._ (behind a convent. "The nuns
room and came back down as
naked as she came into the
world.
| "Said she washed her clothes
and hung them up there to
dry.” He laughed as if it hap-
pened yesterday.
when the present terminal was
from Martinsville, VI., with
Roosevelt'i Civilian Con-
servation Corps and has been
"Yes, some awful things hap-
pen around here—I’ll tell you! ’’
Cahill glanced over the station,
his eyes bright.
He talked about bomb scares,
babies being delivered on
buses, runaways and aban-
Cahill, who is 62, remembers doned children. Prostitutes
even worked on the buses
parked in the garage, lie said.
A long time ago.
only one
Charlie’s.
tattoo parlor:
pointing. "We came, and
watched them tear the building
down." >'*% ________
Cahill came up to Baltimore tattoo parlors as a source of
If Charlie's kind is unique in
Baltimore, it's legally extinct in
the nation's biggest port-New
York, where, like a growing
number of places, tattooing is
against the Igw.
"I'm one of the last tattooers
on the East Coast," Charlie
said. "There may be as many
as 200 of us left in the country,
but most work only part-time.
Right now, I’m part-time."
Artisans like Charlie, who it
66. are caught in a squeeze be-
tween stricter regulations and a
change in public taste.
While health officials attack
i inginBal
a steady i
hepatitis, fewer and fewer
young people are getting their
names etched into their flesh.
now," Charlie explained. "The
longhaired kids aren't getting
tattoos like their fathers."
Harhe-his last name isGei-
zer, but he doesn't use it-says
he got his start in the tattoo
business in 1915 when, as a
youth, he worked in traveling
carnivals and circuses.
“Just natural” is the way most popular designs
............- i . i i i aha ................................................
too as he followed the old saw-
dust circuit, decorating Mid-
western forearms with heart-
enclosed "Mom's” and leaving
rebel flags on southern biceps.
He ran parion in San An-
tonio, Tex., San Diego, Calif
San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,
Seattle, Cleveland, Ohio, and
New Orleans before returning
to his native Baltimore 32 yean
| |'At that time and during the
flourishing war years there
were four other tattooists work-
Baltimore, kept busy by
influx of sailors, aol-
diers and mvjnaa. , J
| But, according to Charlie, the
others decided to get out of the
business in 1953 rather than ad-
here to the new sanitation and
licensing regulatioris laid down
by the city health department.
Then, on top of having to pay
'license,
business began declining.
| Before things slowed down,
I used to do 40 or 50 a week,"
Charlie said. “Now I do 5 or 10,
sometimes none. It varies."
Tattoo Charlie says the ma-
jority of his customers are for-
eign seamen and that hearts
and flowers continue.to be the
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LUNCHES
FRIDAY
Baytown
BREAKFAST - Assorted
juices, cooked cereal, buttered
biscuit and milk.
LUNCH - Flih fillet, man-
agar’l choice (choose one),
green beans, com, manager'!
choice (choose two), fruit za-
lad, buttered loaf broad, milk
and Christmas cake.
Barbers Hill
LUNCH - Meat and
spaghetti, steamed cabbage,
garden salad, french bread,
milk and chocolate cake.
Doctorate
List High At
Howard Payne
ABILENE, Tex. (AP)-Har-
din-Simmons University's 109-
member faculty for the 1971-72
school year includes 40 persons
with doctorates, Dr. Bill Beas-
ley, executive vice preaident
i and interim dean, reports. >
Fifty-gight mstnbers of tha
faculty have masters’ degrees,
eight bachelor’s degrees and
three have specialized profes-
sional training.
The number of doctorates on
the faculty has risen constantly
from the 1963-64 school year
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faculty had doctorates.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
The use of homing pi-
geons reached a dramatic
peak in the Franco-Prus-
sian War of 1870-71 when
Paris was besieged, and the
French relied on pigeons to
carry minute filmed mes-
sages, The World Almanac
says. Their homing ability
is believed to be an ac-
quired recognition of land-
marks and use of the sun as
a guide.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 63, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1971, newspaper, December 16, 1971; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1065853/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.