Under Your Skin

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Related Books:


Tattoos on the Heart
(Fr. Gregory Boyle)

The Word Made Flesh
(Eva Talmadge, Justin Taylor)

Related Albums:


Last of the Bowery Scab Merchants
(Walter Moskowitz)

Incidental Music:

Bon Iver, Bon Iver
(Bon Iver, Bon Iver)
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
(For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver)
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Interviewer(s): 
Jim Fleming
Steve Paulson
Anne Strainchamps
Guest(s): 
Walter Moskowitz
Father Gregory Boyle
Eva Talmadge
Cynthia Woodland
Doug Moskowitz
Producer(s): 
Charles Monroe-Kane
10.14.2012

Do you have a tattoo?  One in five American adults do.  It seems there are tattoo parlors everywhere.  What’s most popular?  Quotes from great works of literature. "So it goes."

  1. Walter Moskowitz Learning the Trade

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    Walter Moskowitz is a tattoo legend. Before he passed away in 2007, he ran the first commercial tattoo parlor on Long Island. 

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  2. Walter Moskowitz tattooing and black eyes

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    Walter Moskowitz learned tattooing from his father William, who did tattoos from the basement of his barbershop called Willy’s. In bruising Bowery fashion, the shop offered a unique service.

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  3. Father Gregory Boyle on "Tattoos on the Heart"

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    Nothing stops a bullet like a job.

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    Average: 3.9 (7 votes)

  4. Walter Moskowitz on tattoo designs

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    Walter’s shop was a hot spot for military men going off to fight in the second world war. Their pin-up girl tattoos are legend. But popular designs change and change. And change again.

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    Average: 3.8 (5 votes)

  5. Cynthia Woodland on her son Tyler

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    Cynthia Woodland’s tattoo has a story. It’s about being a young single mom. It’s about faith. It’s about Tyler.

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  6. Eva Talmadge on "The Word Made Flesh"

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     Getting words, quotes, even lines of verse inked under the skin is more common that you think. There’s even a name for it: Literary Tattoos

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  7. Walter Moskowitz tattoos 80 men in a day

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    One more story from Walter Moskowitz, the last of the Bowery Scab Merchants. Walter tattoos 80 men in a day.

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  8. Doug Moskowitz on his father, tattoo legend, Walter Moskowitz

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    Legendary tattoo artist Walter Moskowitz learned how to tattoo from his father and passed on the art to his son, Marvin. Before Walter passed away in 2007, his other son, Doug, recorded his dad’s stories.

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    Average: 3.8 (5 votes)