I was just surprised to see a woman tattooed. That just didn’t happen in those days—unless one was a bar fly. And what struck me even stranger was the 7 had a slash in the middle of it. Had never seen anything like that. I think that’s one of the reasons I still remember it to this day.
I lived in Europe so long I still make my 7s with the slash in it. I stopped curling the 9s though for some reason.