![]() “The majority of people are either tattooed or they know someone who is tattooed and are interested in the history of how it started, where traditional tattoos came from and things like that,” said Barba, whose shop houses a small tattoo museum displaying items like vintage tattoo guns, flash art, early photos of the shops and tattooers at the Pike. The shops were kept busy thanks to the sailors who docked at the nearby ports and wanted to mark their journeys in ink with images that included ships, anchors, birds and compasses. Long Beach is where the colorful American traditional style of tattooing was born in the early 1900s at the Pike, an amusement park that was home to about a dozen tattoo shops where local tattoo pioneers like Cartwright earned their stripes. With events like the upcoming fundraiser, project officials hope to eventually raise an initial $2 million to help secure a location for the museum, and Long Beach is the logical place for the venue due to the city’s important role in the development of the art form, the tattoo artists noted. “It would be something like a Natural History Museum, basically of tattoos,” Barba added. ![]() He envisions a venue displaying artwork from tattoo artists, artifacts, traveling collections, historical documents and even guest artists from around the world tattooing people inside the museum. ![]() “We want to have exhibits exhibiting everything from Indigenous people tattooing on up to the modern day,” Cartwright said. The museum would cover the gamut of tattoo history, dating back to earliest known tattoos from approximately 5,000 years ago.
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