This old kind of tattoo flash was a lot more commonplace in the tattoo world than it is now. You saw it in tattoo shops. New iconography started being introduced into the mix by newer tattoos ...

A large photo of Willis’s tattoo is just one of the many quirky items featured in “Old-School Ink: New Haven’s Tattoos,” an exhibition at the New Haven Museum on view through March 10, 2018.

HB Tattoo might not be for everyone, but manager Shae Fitzgerald is all right with that. “The shop has been here for 22 years,” Fitzgerald says. “I've known about it since I was like eight ...