Hold it a still . My name is Kerry Barba and I'm the owner of Auto Limits Tattoo here in Long Beach California , the oldest tattoo shop in the nation . Second oldest in the world .
And basically , it's just a reminder every day to , to keep trying something new and don't rest on your Laurels TLC was auditioning artists and they kept contacting me to do this . That was America's worst tattoos . It was a really great experience .
So there used to be a port here in Long Beach , a naval port and the military guys would all come into port and no one had visited other countries . And so the tattoo artists started catching on here and they opened tattoo stops here in the port city of Long Beach , we pulled down a wall , found this safe right behind the wall , still have not opened this safe and we plan to do that to see what's inside on the 100 year anniversary of the shop . So in 27 we're gonna open this thing and see what's in there .
Like New York City may be considered the birthplace of modern tattooing , but it's a Dodger Stadium here in . So where we found the birth of a local tattooing hero . Yes .
And I just show up and he's doing a little bit of work on my wife and I was just like , so like intrigued by this that I immediately went to radio shack and bought all the parts and made my own . And I opened up the first broken art tattoo in Salinas , California . And that was in 2001 when I first opened up the first broken art .
