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Timeline
of Paul Roger's
Life
1905 Paul Rogers is
born, September 9, in Couches Creek,
North Carolina; Fred
Marquand is born
1906 San
Francisco earthquake and
fire
1907 Charles
Dana Gibson's "Gibson Girl" is
considered the model of
femininity
1908 Bakelite,
a water resistant, electrical
insulator and easily machined
plastic, is invented
1909 Conservative
Republican and tattooed
Senator Barry Goldwater
is born
1910 Paul's
father, a timber cutter,
dies in Asheville, North
Carolina; Tattooed King
Edward VII dies
1911 Tattooed
King George V is crowned;
Sailor Jerry Collins is
born
1912 Paul's
family moves to Peachtree,
North Carolina with his
mother's family the McGuires;
an iceberg sinks the Titanic,
drowning 1,595
1913 US
Income tax law goes into
effect
1914 Telephone
line installed between
New York and San Francisco
1915 Panama-Pacific
Exposition, San Francisco;
Clyde W. Forsman is born 1916 Bert
Grimm obtains first tattoo
license in Chicago
1917 Tattooed
Czar Nicholas II abdicates
and is imprisoned
1918 Paul's
family moves to Spartanburg,
South Carolina
1919 Paul's
family moves to Catacee,
South Carolina. Paul works
in hydraulic powered, 4
story cotton mill
1920 American
women win the right to
vote
1921 Capt.
Jack Howard dies; United
States influenza deaths
reported to have far exceeded
war causalities
1922 Annie
Oakley breaks existing
record for women's trap
shooting, 98 out of 100
1923 Dance "till
you drop" marathons are
all the rage
1924 George
Gerswhin transfixes audiences
with his composition "Rhapsody
in Blue"
1925 B.B.
King, American blues guitarist
is born on September 16th
1926; Paul, age 21, gets
his first tattoo from Chet
Cain; Scottish inventor
John L. Baird shows something
called television
1927 Charles
Lindbergh flies Atlantic
alone Ford offers Model
A; gets 50,000 orders
1928 Paul
starts tattooing in October;
Amelia Earhart becomes
first women to fly over
Atlantic
1929 Paul
meets Irma McClain in Fayetteville,
North Carolina; Stock market
crash, "Black Thursday",
October 24; Percy Waters
files tattoo machine patent
1930 Thomas
Edison tests first electric
passenger train between
Hoboken and Montclair,
New Jersey
1931 Paul
and Irma part, but she
bares him a daughter, Faye
Ray; Inventor, Thomas Alva
Edison dies at the age
of 84
1932 Paul
starts on the road with
the J.J. Page Show and
later that year works with
John T. Rea and meets Helen
Winter
1933 Paul
and Helen marry on October
14, in Kittaning, Pennsylvania
and move to Spartanburg,
South Carolina where Paul
works the Happy Land Shows
1934 Leonard,
Helen and Paul's first
child is born on October
16; George Burchett begins
tattooing the Great Omi
1935 During
the winter, Paul works
at Drayton cotton mill
in Spartanburg, South Carolina;
Will Rogers, born in 1879,
dies in an airplane crash
near Point Barrow, Alaska
1936 Paul
is back on the road with
the John T. Rea Side Show.
Tattoo article featuring
Horiyoshi II appears in
Life Magazine
1937 Paul
and Helen live in Drayton,
South Carolina and work
the Happy Land Shows
1938 Willis,
Helen and Paul's second
child is born on April
6, in Spartanburg, South
Carolina; George Burchett
is the first tattoo artist
to appear on television;
the photocopy machine invented
1939 Paul
quits the road
1940 First
draft number is drawn in
United States
1941 Japanese
bomb Pearl Harbor
1942 Paul
moves to Charleston, South
Carolina, and opens his
first tattoo shop; Honolulu,
Hawaii starts issuing tattoo
permits 
1943 United
States Supreme Court rules
unconstitutional the State
practice of requiring students
to salute the flag
1944 Norman
Rockwell's famous painting
of the tattooed sailor
appears on the cover of
the Saturday Evening Post's
March 4th issue
1945 Paul
begins his 5 year association
with Coleman starting in
Norfolk, Virginia; Tattooist
Don Ed Hardy is born
1946 Sailor
George Fosdick dies
1947 Greg
Irons is born; Mildred
Hull, tattooed lady/artist,
dies in New York
1948 Mathatma Gandhi
is assassinated; State of Israel
is established
1949 David,
Helen and Paul's third child is
born on July 26; Lathan Connelly
arrives in Norfolk, Virginia from
Petersburg, Virginia
1950 Norfolk
city officials close down
all tattoo shops; Paul
and Connelly open shops
in Petersburg, Virginia
and Jacksonville, North
Carolina
1951 Tattoo
article appears in Life
Magazine
1952 Percy
Waters, born 1888, dies
1953 Charlie
Wagner dies in New York
City: George Burchett,
born 1872, dies in England
1954 Bill
Haley and the Comets record "Rock
Around the Clock"
1955 Paul
and the family move to
Jacksonville, North Carolina;
Huck Spaulding opens shop
on Court Street in Jacksonville
and Paul joins him later;
Tattoo cover appears on
the Saturday Evening Post
1956 Two
months after Rosa Parks
refuses to move to the
back of the bus, a boycott
of the bus system begins
in Montgomery, Alabama
1957 In
New York, fans chase Giants
to clubhouse, steal souvenirs
on last game before the
move to California
1958 W.C.
Handy, composer of "Memphis
Blues" and "St. Louis Blues",
dies at the age of 84 in
New York
1959 Alaska
becomes 49th and largest
state; the hula hoop is
introduced as America's
newest fad
1960 Paul
and Huck close Jacksonville
North Carolina shop and
go to Alaska, but after
1 month they move back
and re-open shop in Jacksonville
1961 Paul and the family
move to New Jersey and Paul works
with Sailor Eddie Evans in Camden
1962 Two
of the Flying Wallendas
are killed in a high-wire
act in Detroit, Michigan:
John Glenn becomes first
American to orbit earth
1963 Paul
moves from Camden, New
Jersey to Jacksonville
Beach, Florida with old
time tattooist, Bill Williamson;
John F. Kennedy, assassinated
in Dallas, Texas in November
1964 Bill
Williamson dies and Paul
inherits the Jacksonville
Beach shop; Christiaan
Warlich dies
1965 Sir
Winston Churchill, born
1874, dies in Great Britain;
California becomes the
largest state in population
1966 The
mini-skirt, complimented
by headbands, beads and
plastic boots make the
fashion scene
1967 10,000
hippies rally at a New
York "Be-In ; the first
heart transplant is performed
by Dr. Christiaan Barnhard
in Cape Town, South Africa
1968 Martin Luther King
and Robert Kennedy are assassinated;
San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury
is a hippie haven
1969 Mankind
makes its greatest leap:
to the moon
1970 Paul
works Atlantic City with
Ernie Carafa. Later Paul
buys his trailer in Jacksonville
Beach, Flordia and begins
working "at home"
1971 Hank
Aaron joins Babe Ruth and
Willie Mays at 600+ home
run mark
1972 Tattoo article
featuring Lyle Tuttle appears in
Life Magazine; Milton
Zeis dies
1973 August
Bernard Coleman dies; Sailor
Jerry dies
1974 Lyle
Tuttle's Tattoo Art Museum
opens to the public in
San Francisco, California
1975 American
blues guitarist and vocalist,
Aaron "T Bone" Walker dies 1976 North
American Tattoo Club holds
its first convention in
Houston, Texas in January
1977 Doc
Forbes dies in Canada
1978 Carol
Nightingale files patent
for tattoo machine
1979 National's
first Tattoo Convention
held in Denver, Colorado
1980 Leonard "Stoney" St.
Clair born 1912, dies
1981 Betty
Broadbent becomes first
person admitted to the
Tattoo Hall of Fame
1982 Helen
dies at 70 years of age
on November 27 and is buried
at Greenlawn Cemetery in
Portsmouth, Virginia; Queen
Mary Expo held in Long
Beach, California
1983 Paul
is admitted to the Tattoo
Hall of Fame; Betty Broadbent,
born 1909, dies
1984 First
Amsterdam Tattoo Foundation
Convention
1985 Bert
Grimm dies
1986 Doc
Webb dies
1987 Philadelphia
Eddie's National Tattoo
Museum opens to the public
1988 Paul
suffers stroke
1989 Paul's
friends in the tattoo community
join together and produce
a benefit flash book to
help with his medical expenses
1990 After
56 years in the tattoo
profession, Paul dies in
a nursing home in Jacksonville,
Florida at the age of 84
and leaves his entire collection
to the Tattoo Archive in
Berkeley, California
1991 To
honor his memory, the Tattoo
Archive presents The Life
and Times of Paul Rogers,
an exhibit in Oakland,
California
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