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Rick Walters, grizzled sage of Southern California tattoo culture, dies at 73

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In 1959, 14-year-old Rick Walters went to Long Beach with his dad to get a tattoo.

It wasn’t his first. At 10, he poked out “Born to Raise Hell” on his leg. He had already scrawled out so many hearts and crosses on himself and other neighborhood kids that Walters’ mother, he’d tell an interviewer…