WHO REMEMBERS THE OLD SCHOOL?

who remembers the old school? ok heres what i want to know who can tell me about the east coast old school. but heres where we find out who knows there stuff. yeah everyone knows who crazzie philidelphia eddie funk is right? well who can tell me about dominick cianci, or his nephew nick cianci also known as nick volpe. can anyone tell me about the old school east coast? let me know it just seems like these guys who were definatly the foundation of the east coast - dominick with the help of zeke owens even fought to legallize tattooing in the state of NC. does any one have any more info on these people.

ok heres what i want to know who can tell me about the east coast old school. but heres where we find out who knows there stuff. yeah everyone knows who crazzie philidelphia eddie funk is right? well who can tell me about dominick cianci, or his nephew nick cianci also known as nick volpe. can anyone tell me about the old school east coast? let me know it just seems like these guys who were definatly the foundation of the east coast - dominick with the help of zeke owens even fought to legallize tattooing in the state of NC. does any one have any more info on these people. Well it sounds as if you know your stuff somewhat, Yes im sure everyone knows who Edward Funk is but lets not limit ourselves to the east coast as a place for tattoo history C.H. Fellows, reported to be one of the first tattooists in the US, not much is known about him other than he most likely followed the US fleet to practice his trade aboard ships Milton Zeis an inovator in this industry, was one of the first suppliers in the country, he sold pigments, and flash out of his home for over 20 years, he satrted tattooing around 1910, was most likely the first to offer colored flash pages for sale. he also ran the first state accredited home study Tattoo School. Milty died in '72 Bob Shaw(RIP), one of the greats, learned his trade from Bert Grimm. Shaw later went to work with other legends, such as Jack "Painless"Tryon, Earl Brown, and Col Todd Of course we must mention Paul Rogers, who put 56 years into this industry, and while he was pretty much self taught, he did learn things from Jack Willis, Bill Jones, Charlie Barr, and some others, Paul worked with Sailor Eddie Evans in Jersey, Bill Williamson, in Jacksonville, and of course with Ernie Carafa back in Jersey Back in the day Cap Colman was a huge name in the Tattoo business, he employed Paul Rogers at one point, He also went through the trobles of Tattooing becomming Illegal where he was set up in Virginia Charlie Wagner was another one of those boys from the Bowery, he put over 50 years into the business starting in the late 1800's Percy Waters, another legend in the industry, had the most successful Tattoo business in the country from 1917 to about 1938, he is accredited for new inovative ideas for tattoo machines and received several patents for them Mildred "Millie" Hull, one of the first female tattooists in the US she worked out of a barber shop in the Bowery. Millie had alot of psychological issues and committed suicide in the late '40's Norman Rockwell's painting "The Tattooist was inspired by a tattooist from the bowery named Al Nevill, in fact he borrowed one of Nevills Machines to use in the painting. some other greats from history I thought I should mention: Bert Grimm, Lyle Tuttle, Red Gibbons, E.C KIdd, Col. Todd, Domingo Gulang, Sailor George, Ralph Johnstone, Sailor Gus, C.J."Pop" Eddy, Tatts Thomas, C.W. Eldridge, Ed Hardy. I know ive left some of the historic greats out, but to mention everyone would take far too long Mortis