Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965 by John Dececco Phd, John Dececco Phd, Phil Andros, Michael Williams
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965

John Dececco Phd, John Dececco Phd, Phil Andros, Michael Williams

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965

John Dececco Phd, John Dececco Phd, Phil Andros, Michael Williams

214 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction history memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
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Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to bec...

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