Some never seen photo's.....

[blue]

... of Angels in 65

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[stig]

Interesting pictures.
To those of us who have read Hunter S. Thompson's " The Hells angels" those names, if not the faces; are familiar.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I read that book when it first came out. I was in the 5th or 6th grade. My father found it and threw it away, the bastid.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Pretty dang cool... Nice find.

 

[Newfie]

My mother grew up with Skip Workman, one of the Hell's Angels. He now lives two towns away from her in a sleepy little seaside village in Maine with a construction/handyman business.

 

[Bodean]

Great Pictures, really gives a sense of being there.
Billy Ray, a talented photographer for sure.

Thanks for Sharing.

 

[woodworkingboy]

The Hell's Angels would come into Point Reyes Station after the annual parade, and take over the bar and pretty much all of the main street. They'd be drunk and shat and raising hell and you didn't want to be going down there. Just driving down the street was like passing through a gauntlet. Some of them definitely had trouble on their mind. The local Sheriff was not to be found.

A gas station owner told me once that a bunch of Angels came into his station and asked to borrow his tools. He didn't normally loan them out, but was afraid to say no. After working on their bikes, every tool was wiped down and put back in it's place. They seemed most grateful.

 

[Bodean]

Pt. Reyes Station is really cool, pretty scenery too, next to the National Park.
There's a Bakery called Bovine Bakery I think, We get coffee there on our moto rides.

Tons bicyclist hanging around too.

I would be scared of being on a bicycle out there with people flying by..

 

[MasterBlaster]

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[woodworkingboy]

There is the story of when some other gang members, possibly from the Satan's Slaves, stole Sonny Barger's bike. When they caught up with them they broke all their fingers.

I like the mamas....those doos are awesome.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I like the plug in Barger's throat.

 

[blue]

Butch, how did you manage to lift the pics from the site? I tried and couldn't and also couldn't hotlink any into my original post. I had to use their inbed code.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Screenshot, my friend.

 

[blue]

ahhh, sooooooooo simple bit like myself

 

[Tree Reb]

Not that easy, but I've got it figured now, I think.

Got my first road bike in '65, took about 30 minutes before something like this happened.

Lots of cops per population back then, and they didn't like me either.

 

[Bodean]

Are you Siimon Maloney, Tree Reb?

 

[Paul B]

I like the mamas....those doos are awesome.

LOL Full patch dudes and broken nose chicks, thats when you know you are in.

a link from some fun the other day, the highway turnoff the took is about 400 meters from my places. There is a video at the bottom of the page, sorry no embed that I could find.
http://www.vancouversun.com/footage...+dangerously/3610705/story.html#ixzz119AQ7Nky

 

[woodworkingboy]

Those beehive hairdos...I remember a story in the news some years back. A young woman had her hair up like that and apparently never washed it or let it down. Unbeknown to her, there was a black widow that decided it would be a nice place to have it's young. She died from the stings.

 

[Che]

Thanks, Blue. Great pix.

 

[Tree Reb]

Are you Siimon Maloney, Tree Reb?

Nope, not me.

That picture just reminded me of something.

 

[squisher]

Awesome pics. I grew up on hogs, rode in front til I was old enough to be on back. My mom left my original dad because he was pure biker. He hung with some bad ass dudes for up in Canada. He got out when things got heavy and hung with me and my mom for awhile. 4 or 5 times when I was a wee lad he would just up and leave, travel down the westcoast of the states, across to the east coast, up to Canada and then back across Canada. 4 to 5 weeks with a day or two's notice. Crazy dude.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Do you ever see him or is he dead?

 

[Old Monkey]

Bikers have never been my heroes. The Hell Angels were thugs. It seems odd to me how mainstream counter culture has become. Biker gear is sold in high end boutique shops these days and low end stuff is available at gas stations. Outfitting folks to look like the bad boys of yore is a money industry. In fact any which way someone wants to rebel these days, there are companies tripping over each other to outfit you.

 

[stig]

And TV spreads it all over the world, so we end up with our own little wanna-be black ghetto gangstas over here.
Except ours are middle class white and only wish they were black, cause it would be soooo much cooler.

Weird world!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Those are called whiggers, Stig.