![]() ![]() (Shot changes to show a tattoo depicting animals being driven forward between rows of circus trains, as the camera slowly pans down) As a matter of fact I used to think that myself years ago. Most people are in the opinion the person coming in gets a tattoo rides a motorcycle, and is a drunken sailor, this isn't true. HARTMON: You'd be surprised, some of the people that come in there. HARTMON: There're a lot of nurses, doctors, lawyers, churchmen, clergymen. HARTMON: You'd be surprised who comes in there and gets tattoos. (Shot changes again to show the two men talking) HARTMON V/O: If I had one next I'd get maybe more business because a lot of his customers, believe it or not, that get tattoos, come over in here and buy vacuum cleaners. ![]() (Shot changes to show a person riding a motorcycle on the street) HARTMON O/C: Good neighbor, good business man, and a heck of a good fella. (Camera pans over to show Stoney's tattoo parlor) INTERVIEWER: What's it like having a tattoo artist next door? INTERVIEWER: Do you, you own this store here? INTERVIEWER: How long have you been on this block Mr. (Shot changes to show two men talking on the street outside a store next to the parlor) ![]() That'd just come up in my blood, cause I had an uncle that was in that business and I, I had to follow him into it. STONEY V/O: - the band and everything, and then I would paste them together, and I had a string as long as there across that street over there, and on the road, look at them little old circus wagons and stuff. (Shot changes to show the street with the tattoo parlor on it) STONEY V/O: And, I used my station area up then drawing a circus wagon on each sheet of a different thing, animals,. WOMAN V/O: Tell them about the little circus wagon. He had little money in the bank, he went broke, I stayed in there for twenty four months,and. For 3 dollars a day! Today you can't get in there for a hundred dollars a day! His wages were two and a half dollars a day. STONEY V/O: About 19 and 16 or 17, he put me in Johns Hopkins for arthritis in there. (Shot changes to show different statues on a display) And he became a motorman inside the mines, that's running a train, like a train under there. STONEY V/O: When grandpa got back to work, my daddy went back to school. (Shot changes to another tattoo, with txt on it as well) STONEY V/O: 65 cents a day, and he had to keep the family on that. (Shot changes to another tattoo, with text on it as well) My dad had to quit school at fourteen and went trapping in the coal mines. Text: A FILM BY ALAN GOVENAR AND BRUCE LANE (Shot changes to a different tattoo, with new words on it) It was in the line of fire, around a country store. STONEY V/O: What did my daddy do? His father was a miner and he got accidently shot through the neck. INTERVIEWER V/O: Stoney, what did your dad do? (Shot fades to a tattoo display with words on it) STONEY: "- he's gonna get five years in prison." "Well what did he do, grandpa?" "He was white, whitewashing rat manure and selling it for rice." (Laughs) Yeah, all that and stuff! Well sure, me, his little crippled up grandson there, he made us all laugh. (Shot changes to Stoney, sitting and talking) "Oscar Connor was indicted, and they think -" Everybody knew Oscar Connor because that's the postmaster, and he says, "Well, I see some news from home this morning." Oh, yeah, I don't know, I must have been nine years old. STONEY V/O: -he named somebody that we all knew, the postmaster in the little town, you know, Coldcamp. (Shot moves to another shelf with a picture of a woman and a man in a wheel chair, panning slowly to show artwork) STONEY V/O: He came to me with the paper, and. (Shot changes to yet another shelf with a terrarium) STONEY V/O: Oh, good gosh, I don't tell that! (Shot moves to a different, similar shelf) INTERVIEWER V/O: What's that your grandfather used to do? That story about the mail man? (Shot fades in to show little statues, cans, and clutter on a shelf) Stoney Knows How transcript, Stoney Knows How ![]()
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