Founded in 2011 by a lifelong Ocean Beach resident with more than twenty-five years of tattooing experience, Last Days Tattoo Parlor holds a 4919B Newport Avenue storefront dually categorized as a tattoo shop and art gallery. The dual listing reflects how the shop actually runs — rotating wall art from shop artists alongside regular tattoo operations — an approach that shares creative programming DNA with BE Studios elsewhere in the neighborhood. Military clientele form a significant portion of the regular booking base, a tradition explicitly acknowledged on the shop's history page given the location's proximity to Point Loma base personnel. Annual flash-special events including Friday the 13th and May the 4th are shop fixtures, drawing lines down Newport Avenue for discounted pre-drawn designs completed on a single-day schedule. The military-regular demographic also feeds Newport Avenue's grooming economy, with OB Barbershop running the same kind of long-term-regular relationship model across a neighboring trade. Custom large-scale commissioned pieces with client-specific design development are the parlor's most committed project format, sitting at the opposite end of the booking spectrum from the flash-special one-offs.