Market Street Commandos

Market Street Commandos

The Market Street Commandos was a motorcycle club that, in 1947, along with the Boozefighters and the Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington, participated in the highly-publicized Hollister incident (later immortalized on film as The Wild One[1] [2]). In 1954 the Fontana Hells Angels merged with the Market Street Commandos to become the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Hell's Angels, The History Channel, 1998
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Motorcycle club's origins clouded in wartime history, but all sides agree on one thing: Today's Hells Angels are no monks, by Michael Jamison, The Missoulian, 2000

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