"In the underground world of New York tattoos, far from the stylish shops in Greenwich Village, Tony Polito is a legend.He started in the business back in 1959, the same year he got his first tattoo. He was 14 years old. Back then, the customers were mainly sailors and the parlours could be found in Coney Island or on the Bowery - a street as rough then as it is fancy today." (Quoted from site)