Southern California has a long history with tattoos from sailors getting inked on the Long Beach Pike more than a half century ago, to modern day artists with their own reality shows.

Arts and culture journalist, Josh Chesler, talks to Alex Cohen about Southern California’s tattoo history, some of the key players in making tattoos popular and how celebrity culture also played a part.

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