>Notably, two early tattoo artists, Red Gibbons and Sailor Walter, were catering to this growing trend.
>Operating out of their shop on Burnside Street in Portland, they reported in 1937 that they were working overtime, tattooing Social Security numbers “on the arms and legs of folks who didn’t want to be caught without their numbers,” as mentioned in a local newspaper.
>Below is a hand-lettered sign advertising Social Security number tattoo styles (from 1936).
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Why the tattoo?
Thomas Cave. He died in 1980. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3895107/thomas-ursel-cave
His wife Ann died in 2000.
>Notably, two early tattoo artists, Red Gibbons and Sailor Walter, were catering to this growing trend.
>Operating out of their shop on Burnside Street in Portland, they reported in 1937 that they were working overtime, tattooing Social Security numbers “on the arms and legs of folks who didn’t want to be caught without their numbers,” as mentioned in a local newspaper.
>Below is a hand-lettered sign advertising Social Security number tattoo styles (from 1936).
From this article: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/unemployed-worker-social-security-number-tattoo/
Guessing u/BusinessQueasy4999 is a bot repost bot
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/s/6BbklXaaoB
That tattoo is probably the difference between your corpse going to your family or to the unmarked grave.
He look like Glen Powell