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RICHMOND HOUSE: Ingenuity Is Key Jan. 10, 1965 MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE :9 SHOULD I REMODEL IN If you need help with this question CALL TA 5-6867, RAY N. WELTER HEATING COMPANY. Whether it be a new KITCHEN ADDITION HEATING AIR CONDITIONING or BATHROOM we do the ENTIRE job. We furnish Complete drawings and specifications, NO GUESS WORK.

Your remodeled home will take on a new value and you save the cost of real estate sales, moving and higher taxes. particulars. An electrician laid out the wiring, although Richmond installed it. A friend helped hold the main beam in the living room ceiling while Richmond fastened it in place. Friends staged a shingling bee to speed up work on the roof.

The bowl is built into the tile counter. EVERY ROOM in the house holds evidence of Mrs. Richmond's talents: stained glass ashtrays, mosaic coffee tables and end tables, paintings, hand-woven Mexican-style rug. And everywhere are old discards put to new and different in the living room, a log holder made from the fireplace liner of a demolished Baltimore house; a wall arrangement of old keys, hung in and around a burlap-centered Continued from Page One bed cut in half and one half welded to each side of the original head section. (When Mrs.

Richmond first carted the ancient bedstead home, her husband said, "Well, THAT goes to the A rug and an iron chair from Mexico, an antique chest of drawers and an upholstered chair complete the picture. Bathroom colors and decor were planned around an antique bowl and pitcher set, green and bronze. RAY N. WELTER HEATING CO. 4637 CHICAGO AVE.

SO. EST. 1912 TA 5-6867 frame; a brass spittoon holding cattails; i 1 -plated decorative top of old parlor stove inverted under ceiling light inside front door. A crudely handcrafted, castoff round table was sanded down and refinish-ed for dining table; old duck decoy sanded down to natural finsih as hearth-piece; door pulls, handles and light switch plates salvaged from old row houses demolished in Baltimore; scoop from long-ago grocery store scale used as magazine holder. The Richmonds even laid their own carpeting.

The house is entirely the work of their own hands, with help in only three minor CONTRACT PRICE NO EXTRAS Use Hot Water It is important to make sure your water is hot enough on washday. The first rinse should be just as hot as the washing water. Why? Because cooler water will harden the soap, causing it to cling to the fibers 'and yellow the clothes. MINNEAPOLIS if Star 'j ANTIQUE PITCHER, BOWL Room keyed to them Your Present Sofa and Chairs Have Value WE'LL PROVE IT! LIVE MODERN fOR LESS COOK WITH GAS Get Charles Johnson's SLOWDOWN ON SPORTS' Fabrics and Park's Annual Incentive A Seasonal Lull In Our Offer Expires 1 Week COPY OF BISQUE DOLL Made by Mrs. Richmond MOSAIC PANEL BEHIND STOVE Bennington brown, copper utensils (1 Tattoo Artist Finds Fine Arts Degree Asset to Colorful Job EXCLUSIVE 5 YEAR REGISTERED WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEE, Discount To Cover 1 Shop Facilities calls the "battle royal." "That covers a man's whole back, and involves an eagle, snake and dragon," he said.

"It requires three needling sessions of three hours each at a cost of $75," he said. THE MOST inexpensive tattoo in Raven's repertoire is the customer's name. No matter how long the name, it costs just $1.50. A bonus of a banner under the name is thrown in. Now.

a recognized master himself, Raven counsels fledgling tattooists "if you have a good background in art, all you have to learn about tattooing is the machines, and a- few January 30 I Delivery I NO MONEY DOWN JUST'5 PER MONTH! No Payments Till March from all walks of life, "Many of the wealthy clients ask for a coat of arms," he said. "One of the most popular for these clients is an Anglo-Saxon coat of arms. Some even bring in their own family emblems." The most popular tattoo is a rose, many times with "Mom" or the name of some other dear one inscribed upon it. The most difficult is a woman. "The customer sure is particular about, that," Raven said.

"You can't make a slip. If you make a mistake with a flower, you just add another leaf or petal. But for the figure of a woman, every curve has to be just right." I African Violets 3" I bud or bloom each 6 hf $5 aCNKAOALE GREENHOUSES 373? Tonkowood Rd. Wl 14480 next summer unrnotrintori 5pip.ntinn From removing a tattoo. A tat-tooist can not erase what he inscribes.

It takes a doctor. There are two ways to get rid of a tattoo. For a large tattoo, it could mean removal of the skin and a skin graft. For a small tattoo, the skin can be "sanded" in a process called Raven concedes that there are some men who will treasure a tattoo and some who can get along without one. "AFTER ALL, it's quite popular among European royalty," he said.

"The last two reigning kings of England, as well as the Danish king, had tattoos. Even Lady Randolph Churchill (the mother of Sir Winston) had one." Raven's customers come You can enjoy shade and beauty mh. mrv t. Verv Choice Groups of 1 1TUCD.I IWF Three Colors! LUSCIOUS QUILTS REG. DISCOUNT PRICE PRICE WW0 rrnqi $7100 NEW 1965 CHICAGO, 111.

(UPI) Cliff Raven has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Indiana University. He is a professional tattoo artist. Raven, 32, believes the college education helps him needle a better tattoo. He runs the Old Town Tattoo Salon on Chicago's North Side. Business is slow, so he supplements his income by working as a commercial artist for advertising firms.

But he puts his heart into his tattooing. The reason pickings are slim in tattooing is the Illinois law barring minors from having a tattoo. This deprives Raven of some of the Midwest's most dedicated tattoo customers young sailors from the nearby Great Lakes Naval iiammg KAVi was iresn out of college when he got the urge to get a tattoo. It was a 2-inch butterfly. He was inspired.

He wanted to be a tattoo artist himself. He went back to school, learning from an old master who worked his art on Chicago's S. State close by the Polk St. Station. He practiced by drawing a design on his own leg.

Then, working with his teacher and agreeable subjects, he began to beautify the hides of others. "It was like going to a barber college for a haircut," Raven recalls. "They knew I wasn't a professional but still would let me practice on them." Now he is accomplished enough to tackle what he FABRICS REG. DISCOUNT PRICE PRICE' NAUGAMTUtS REG. DISCOUNT PRICE PRICE 53910 54410 S103so $58S0 oSOFA s99 s49 CHAIR Mill 11 1 tL.aa nnr1 Fmir Piece Sectionals Similar Discounts un OR etc MOTHING MORE TO PAY! CONDITION other technical things.

Hayi the fine arts back; ground allowg me tQ apply good taste and ethics." Raven embarks on a tattoo by shaving the skin and sterilizing it. He sketches the design on the skin for the customer's approval. Then, a machine with a group of tiny needles concentrated in a point is dipped in coloring matter of dry metallic pigments mixed with alcohol. It is applied to the skin and the actual tattooing begins. THE NEEDLES move up and down rapidly, breaking the skin to a depth of 164 of an inch.

The device sounds like an electric razor. "It's just like doing free hand art," Raven said. But the task is not so simple when it comes to LU Will. ur I I 'A W.v..v.v.'.vi,',-.v-' PARK BRINGS YOU THE NEWS DICK FORD DEAN MONTGOMERY Sunday Noon WGCO Sunday 9:30 P.M. fV I JT Tw wtcniiyrKtt blrl Just for letting present sofa reupholstered I We will give you FREE, without obligation, SHOP AT HOME For Convenient Shop at Home Service, Just Call FE 8-4761.

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