Tattoo Charlie 1951-2007

The world is just a little bit sadder today.

Tattoo Charlie dies at age 56 from a "Sudden Illness." More information is also available on Fox 41's site as well. Visitation will be held at Owen Funeral Home on Dixie Highway today and tomorrow.

I've met the man a couple times in my life, and he was always a happy and jolly man, the perfect Santa Calus to say the least. In his passing there is a sadness as he was one of the biggest donaters to various causes in the area, and he helped to start the Toys for Tots program.

My father got a tattoo from one of his main tattooists at the Berry Blvd location for fathers day several years ago. I myself got a labret piercing done from Tattoo Charlies over on the Preston Highway location by Outer Loop.

One of the most intriguing things about Tattoo Charlie's shops that always stood out to me is how clean they are, and their commitment to consistency, cleanliness, and values. Sure you may have been angry at them for not tattooing that skull on the back of your neck, but when that other place did your chances for career advancement dropped about 97%. Charlie Wheeler knew this, he had standards that kept him going and very well respected in the region. Not only with lovers of tattoo's, but also those who would never get one but knew if their son or daughter did then Charlie's was the place to go.

Charlie will live on, while you wait.