Northwest Tattoo Museum hopes to stay afloat through hardships
Founder, curator, historian and master tattooist Jay Brown on Friday afternoon discusses struggles the Northwest Tattoo Museum has been facing as of late, including an unexpected air conditioning repair expense and staff member health challenges.
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A group of friends gather to watch as Nathan Korth of Bonney Lake, Wash. is tattooed Friday by Douglas Swindle at the Northwest Tattoo Museum in Coeur d'Alene.
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Northwest Tattoo Museum founder Jay Brown holds up a tattoo machine he made by hand.
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Resident skeleton "Bones" is situated among one of the first exhibits people see when they visit the Northwest Tattoo Museum in Coeur d'Alene.
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COEUR d'ALENE — A group of young men gathered to watch as one sat on the chair, leg outstretched, a grimace competing with a grin as a buzzing tattoo gun needled ink into his skin.
"It's hurting," Nathan Korth of Bonney Lake, Wash., admitted Friday afternoon as Northwest Tattoo Museum artist Douglas Swindle went about his work designing a cherry blossom tree above the ankle on the inside of Korth's leg.
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