It's also on Amazon
I'll rephrase: their generation as a culture did not have tattoos with the same prevalence as people in our era.
I phrased it poorly.
In fact I was just just looking at old-ass tattoos of some dude who was arrested in Hank's time in that book Death Scene's- A homicide detective's scrapbook. The whole thing is pictures he collected of gore, crime scenes, criminals, etc.