Heather Breaux
HEATHER BREAUX is a reporter and editorial assistant at Latitude 38 Media. She writes about sailing, sustainability, and DEI.
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
"Sponge and bucket was the decades-old standard: ink, blood, wipe it off, squeeze it out, throw it back in the bucket.”
That’s how Ed Hardy described the atmosphere of Painless Nell’s (née Nellie Bohnak) tattoo shop in San Diego when he stepped into it in 1969. As he put it, stepping into her shop was like stepping back in time. In the 1940s, Nellie Bohnak and her ex-Navy husband opened up a tattoo shop after leaving the Northeast carnival circuit.