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["Dennis D" <dend@nyc.rr.com>]

Wow, I know Jonathan and had no idea who his dad is/was. Jonathan would
serve as bodyguard/escort to various celebs when visiting Johnny Depp and
Shane MacGowan. Last time I saw him he was with Shane MacGowan, I think he
thought I was a fan out to bother Shane was about to intervene until both
Shane and myself assured him we knew each other, got a little tense there
for a second and Jonathan knew me! He used to eat at the Old Devil Moon and
his leaving NY explains why I haven't seen him in a longtime. Thanks.


> January 4, 2005 -- NONE of the obituaries for Artie Shaw mentioned that he
> had a son, Jonathan Shaw, 50, a famous tattoo artist who owned Manhattan's
> oldest tattoo parlor, Fun City, on St. Marks Place. "He never talked about
> his father. He didn't like his father," said Michelle Myles, who bought
the
> shop from Jonathan in September just before he moved to Rio de Janeiro.
"He
> was pretty much done with tattooing and done with New York," Myles said.
> Artie Shaw - the clarinet-playing big band leader known as much for his
> arrogance as his music - had already been married to Lana Turner and Ava
> Gardner when he made Doris Dowling his seventh wife in 1952. Dowling, star
> of "The Blue Dahlia" and "The Lost Weekend," gave birth to Jonathan before
> the marriage dissolved. She died last June. "He was close to his mother,"
> Myles said. Jonathan, who edited Outlaw Biker Tattoo Review and
> International Tattoo Art magazine in the '90s, popularized the all-black
> tribal style and opened Fun City even before tattooing became legal in
1997.
> Said one East Villager, "He did all the Yakuza who have their backs
covered
> in tattoos. It wasn't uncommon to see black limos parked outside his shop
> with big Japanese guys on ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^the sidewalk waiting."
>
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