Adams Avenue Tattoo is a veteran-owned custom tattoo studio at 3215 Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, San Diego, 92116. Co-founders Jerry Walker, Chris Reed, and David Montoya opened the shop in 2017, and Reed's military service background shaped the studio's identity as a veteran-owned, LGBTQ+-inclusive, transgender-safespace operation. Reed has been tattooing since 2009 and specializes in geometric and mandala work, Japanese-style compositions, botanical and floral pieces, and neo-traditional designs. Walker trained apprentice Shelby, who joined in 2021 and built a specialty in blackwork and American Traditional tattoos — her portfolio includes full leg and arm sleeve projects executed across multiple sessions. The visual art pipeline between tattoo studios and gallery spaces on the Adams Avenue corridor runs both directions, and Ashton Gallery at Art on 30th exhibits fine art from local artists whose illustrative and painterly work feeds the same aesthetic vocabulary that tattoo artists draw from. Andrew rounds out the artist roster as a San Diego native who studied illustration and animation at Cal State Northridge before transitioning into traditional tattooing. The studio accepts walk-ins and operates as a cash-only shop. American Traditional flash sheets hang alongside custom design consultations in a format that gives clients both impulse and planned-project options. The barbershop and grooming corridor on Adams Avenue shares a personal-transformation clientele with the tattoo studios, and Dinks Barbershop on Adams Avenue anchors the grooming side of that overlap. The studio's three founders each bring over a decade of tattooing experience, and the collective output spans blackwork, traditional, neo-traditional, Japanese, geometric, and fine-line styles across a single shop.