Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington
Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington (POBOB) is a motorcycle club that participated in the 1947 controversial Hollister riot along with the Boozefighters MC and Market Street Commandos .
After the incident in Hollister , Otto Friedli (June 28, 1931 - March 17, 2008) left the club and founded the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club on March 17, 1948 in Fontana (California) , west of San Bernardino . In 1954 this club became the Hells Angels San Francisco Chapter together with the Market Street Commandos .
Official club history
The POBOS were initially a motorcycle and car club. Just south of San Bernardino, California , in the small town of Bloomington , the club was founded in 1945 by WWII veterans and Otto Friedli , who was too young to have served in the war. The members understood the founding of the club as a rebellion against civil life and as a search for excitement with trips together with motorcycles and hot rods . When the Gypsy Tour Run, a race approved by the American Motorcyclist Association , returned to Hollister for the first time after the war on July 4, 1947 , the POBOB took part in the event and were in charge, along with the Boozefighters MC and the Market Street Commandos, involved in the riots that quickly became known worldwide and ultimately shaped the image of the rocker scene for years, not least due to the media processing in the film Der Wilde with Marlon Brando .
Two months later, the same clubs attended another AMA event on Labor Day weekend , which also resulted in rioting. The rockers occupied the main street and partied wildly.
Six months later, Otto Friedli and other former members of the POBOB founded the first charter of the Hells Angels in San Bernardino, California on March 17, 1948. The previous club broke up.
Three years later, the POBOBs were founded again, but without the car club. Today the club is called Pissed Off Bastards of Berdoo and has two chapters, one in Southern California and one in Nevada .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hell's Angels , The History Channel, 1998
- ↑ Hell's Angel: the Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club , by Ralph "Sonny" Barger, with Keith and Kent Zimmerman, 2000, HarperCollins, pages 25-47
- ↑ Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick in the Canadian Hells Angels , by Jerry Langton, John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd, 2006, pp 180-184 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The official POBOB MC website
