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Ed Hardy’s S.F. tattoo shop changed the industry forever. Many are making a pilgrimage before it closes in December
Coupled with the cognitive decline of its founder and proprietor — San Francisco Arts Institute alumnus Don Ed Hardy, whose influence changed tattooing forever — it is truly the end of an era.
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Ed Hardy’s Tattoo City in San Francisco to close amid founder’s health issues
San Francisco’s iconic Tattoo City, which first opened in 1977, will close its North Beach shop by year’s end, as its founder ...
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Ed Hardy
In 2004, former Von Dutch designer Christian Audigier bought the rights to the Japanese-inspired designs of retired tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy and parlayed them into another celebrity-courting ...