Hells Angels 1965
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2015
- HAMC del 65 trabajo hecho por el fotógrafo Bill Ray de LIFE Magazine.
HAMC of 65 work done by photographer Bill Ray of LIFE Magazine.
Audio: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me The Breeze
Photos: Bill Ray
Edición: Tomás Picchio - Розваги
My Mom,my brother and me lived across the street from the San Jose chapter from late 1966 to early 1967. We went trick or treating to their house. No one else did. They escorted us home with a huge container of candy. They were really fascinated by our Volkswagen Beetle. They became very respectful of Mom when she told them my father wasn't around because he had volunteered for Vietnam. Great group of guys.
Con. Three used to play biker gigs best dame time of a musicians life R.I.P. Harry Marety you were dane good with the sticks
Just like a dog, leave them alone they'll you leave alone. F w/ them thinking your tough & they'll go great lengths to prove you wrong. I LOVE riding my XL but have no desire to go back to jail for anything done to prove a point...they feel differently.
I've chatted with Hells Angels members on a number of occasions. Treat them with respect and they're cool.
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@@richiemarshall2755❤
As a former 1%er who ran with a club for 15 years I can tell you that I had some of the best times of my life back then. We were free and we made sure everyone knew it. I had friends in the Hell's Angels in California and some in the Banditos out in Texas. Every time I ran through I was sure to make a call and see what was happening. I was always invited and always showed up. Some kick ass times with some kick ass people. Oh, and I will never forget that girl I met at a Banditos party in El Paso, Texas about 40 years ago who jumped on my bike and ran with me for the next 4 months while we rode around from State to State. Towards the end she asked me if I could ride her up to see her aunt in Tacoma, WA. I took here there and then a few days later I woke up early, packed up my roll and saddle bags and left without saying goodbye. I knew that is where she belonged and I spoke to her on the phone once many years later in 2010 and she had gotten married, had children and grandchildren and thanked me for being a good human being and getting her back to her family. She was a beauty for sure, but I was just unable to settle down at the time and I knew she needed family and to be away from the life. Took me many years before I left the life and got married, had kids and now grand-kids. I still have an old Shovelhead I ride out to classic motorcycle events but that is about the extent of it anymore.
ENVY is not a strong enough word. Reminds me of EASY RIDER. To live free in a then free country must've been like walking in the clouds compared to the Big Brother total crap iberal fantasy world electric HDs we are subjugated to live in now.
You weren't "FREE", you have more rules to live by in a 1% M.C. than anywhere else in life and if you break those rules, your so-called brothers will turn on you in an instant with no mercy and even if you don't break the rules, one of your so-called brothers will rat you and everyone else out to save themselves.
That’s a great account of your younger life… No regrets man!!
Well, that never happened.
Sweet memories are the things nobody can ever take from you. Cruise on brother.
Wow...Back when life was free and simple. Let’s go back to 65 ! Best bikes ever !
free? LOL, did you look at the photos?
I met the group of the Angels in 1965 in Roosevelt CA I was 6 years old We had a place where we road our bicycles And the angles showed up One of the members came over to me and took me by the hand and showed me all the bikes It was so cool then he said they where going to be there a couple of days and to tell all my friends not to come up there so I did But I will never forget him showing me the bikes As soon as I was big enough I have had a HD ever since
Thats cool but when I was a kid evil knievel said they were a bunch of punks !
@@willsummers1245 Well I was 8 years old then And they looked like a bunch of big dudes then
@@rodneybrewer2327 I hope so they would look funny if they were Midgets lol !!!
It shows you what that publicity seeker Knievel knew I'll give him credit he could jump a bike but that's about all
@@willsummers1245 he wasn't exacly a model of decency himself.....
I don’t listen to skynyrd often; but when i do so do the neighbors🤘🏼
Yes, Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour. 🤙🤙👈
Some of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure to meet have been bikers. Back in the early 70’s a friend of mine had been hit by a car and a group of bikers chased the car down that hit him and brought him back to face the police and his parents. My friend had multiple broken bones and cuts and bruises. The bikers who were passing through stayed around our town for a few days and became town friends for what they had done to help.
Some of us will never forget.
Yeah, they can be very loyal 🏍️😁👍
The days when a picture did indeed tell a thousand stories.
I noticed on the back of one rider he had a 'Vincent' patch. HD may have been the chosen ride of the Hells Angels, but a Vincent HRD Black Shadow was the holy grail for all bikers in the 50s and 60s. When England produced some of the greatest motorcycles the world has ever known. Norton, Triumph, BSA, Velocette, Airel, Matchless, AJS, Francis Barnet, Panther, etc and the Rolls Royce of all machines the Brough Superior.
Hello from the u.k.
I’m 66 now, and my brother in law had all of those bikes back in the day.
Him and my sister both passed away 5 yrs ago within 18 months of each other
Ages 69 and 72.
My mum and dad were terrified, of my sister going on the back of the bike.
They had a gap of about 30 yrs then bought a bike each, he bought
a triumph Bonneville , and bought her a Suzuki 250, I have to say
I prefer the older Brit and u.s. bikes but, it looked neat, light tan
Seat, light silver metallic tank, e.t.c.
Their passing wasn’t bike orientated.
Take care, in these stupid times!
Yeah,I had a BSA Lighting,it was a blast! (When it ran)
I would truly love to have a Brough.
Yes! SS100
@carmine redd Where was your sports car made? 😂
I loved how bikes looked back then. They were simple and not these massive things you see today having everything but the kitchen sink.
Totally agree cheers
@Vox Quod I already have one. I transformed a 98 Sportster 1200 Custom into a cafe. Love it!!
If you pay for it you will eventually find one with an integrated kitchen sink
I agree man, nothing like an old chopped and bobbed, with a pan head. I don't really like modern bikes. Even Harley Davidson's offerings dont really impress me much. Sadly the closest thing to what I like (that I can afford) is a damn Honda rebel. A retro custom chopper or bobber, will set you back some serious cash. If I could find an old basket case from that era I would be happy. Put it back together and get it running. Except for the fact that everyone in that group seems to like ape hangers which I cannot stand. Drag bars are more my style. You see I do not like baggers nor crotch rockets. Retro old school hard tail harleys. That's my thing, they were a simple work of art.
Steven Baker now I guess you have to paint your rims red and have wide white walls.
Back in 60s my older brother sent away to Ed ‘ Big Daddy ‘ Roth for some huge posters of real Hell’s Angels and other bikers. We had them all over our room. A lot of freaky long front ends and crazy handlebars back when that stuff was ‘ in ‘. My favorite was some guy from the Jokers in Michigan ( how’d he get in there ?) with his low riding bobber type hog with a high sissy bar that had Maltese cross shape in the top. Back in ‘69 my brother thought I was weird.
1960s, best years in the history of the planet. Never again will people have the same freedoms.
Freedoms? All I see here are cops arresting people.
john tokarz Soooooo true John. Gone with the wind, one moment it was there, second later gone forever.
Bkes
Kd
Only the wise??? two black guys built the two most famous choppers for the Easy Rider Movie. The name Sugar bear ring a bell?
The 60's and 70's were still like the wild west. The 80's weren't bad but we were slowly starting to lose rights. I miss the old days and the old ways.
The government and the police called all gatherings a riot in the 1980's, I know I was there.
@SuperVHSchannel I think they were talking about how we lost freedom
@@chadpittman3025 What freedom, exactly, did we lose?
@@lbowsk in 1979 you could drink alcohol in public for one
@@lbowsk What is ALWAYS at risk is the freedom to THINK individually! People IN MASSE forfeit that freedom simply to fit in....Voluntary enslavement to the status quo? F*CK THAT!! SERIOUSLY F*ck that!
60's , had a different air of freedom , in cali. A great time to grow up in , sure do miss it.
1965, the year I got out of the Army. Started riding in 1958 but never rode with an outlaw club. 74 now and still ride. 04 Harley Low Rider and a 68 BSA chopper.
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dadprod thank you for your service Sir. That is awesome you still ride. 👍
Always show our elders respect at all cost.Becuase they can always spot a know it all sucker.
'68 BSA Chopper.....bet that is sweet
A BSA chopper just like my brother did built. Did also own a " Push " (Austrian made " and the large monster of " Triumph ".
My father has some great stories from this early to mid 60's era as a biker in SoCal. He hung out with these guys and knew Sonny, but never joined the Angels.
Was born in 65. I live in Texas so it’s Bandito country here but have respect for all the 1% clubs. Riding as an independent for over 30 years. Loved seeing all the old bikes. I like getting out my restored 49 Panhead every once and awhile and turning a few heads. It’s like riding a time machine.
Those are the good ol days,when it was about bikes,parties,girls and brotherhood.Im 43 years on Harleys and times have changed a lot....not to the better!
Ah the 60's. I was a teenager Respect to all looking for their version of freedom. You feel it in these photos. The last great decade to live in California.
This was the time to be an Angel.
Those days you spend your money on a bike for freedom , nowadays on a lawyer to keep your piece of freedom !!
@@RS-Amsterdam well said
I say that all the time
back when riding and having a party was all it was about. I miss the sixties. another time, god I hate getting old.
The 'getting old' part seems to speed up the older you get! :(
Well at least you remember the 60"s. A substantial part of that decade is just a foggy blur for some of us.
@@neville3151 don't remember everything have some blank spots ;)
Drug taking has never been compulsory or the smart thing to do ! Booze birds and backy were ok though were ,take care all and may your God go with you!
Guys like these are why I been riding since 72' and I aint stopping any time soon...God willing.
These guys and gals were way ahead of their time setting the trend for style, fashion, attitude..culture...
Which every other MC copied.
They are not a tv show you mug.
HAHAHAHA...Reeeeeeally?...comical.
AFFA
Thanks so much for these great pictures. A time when we were young and free.
Great pics, the best years of my life hanging out with guys like that
Great photos. Really capture a long lost time. Thanks for posting.
Enjoy !
I was only 12 yrs. old and riding my mini bike or enduro in the Las Vegas desert. It was fun. I remember back then kids, teens and adults liked motor cycles. Now every one is starring at IPads.
Beautiful photos! Well done! Gotta say...the pure style of those dudes and dudettes was righteous. Sure, road grime, grease, rips and tears, etc., but the hair, the glasses, the layering of the leather and denim and the boots and the gloves...combined with the bikes, the surroundings, the patches and rockers...what a visual overload of high style...bravo!
64 to 74 was a BLAST!!! NEVER TO REPEATED AGAIN!!! ADIOS AMIGOS!
I had a girlfriend with me out riding one weekend and stopped off at a local biker watering hole. She freaked worried they were going to get us (or something.) I laughed at her and we went on inside. I almost had to drag her out when it was time to leave cuz of the fun she was having. Bikers are just like everyone else except they know how to have fun about anywhere.
If you're out riding and have a breakdown some brothers pulling up means you ain't walking home.
Dammit! Why did we have to get old?
Shit happens
Shit happens, lucky your old enough to have lived in these times 😎😎😎😎
My idea of old use to change every few years. Now days I'm thinking old ? Just a number and it's better then the alternative
Why did so many of us not get old?
@Danny Walker danny this beer and shot , wild turkey, r fore u
They LOOK like the Hells Angels you were told about, the legends, the myth! What happened? and the bikes today? straight outta the showroom??
Time to revisit the glory days guys.
Back in the day I was told that a garbage wagon was a bike with everything on it that a bike didn`t need and now I see " Angels " riding around on garbage wagons......what happened, man ?
The easy life has softened many up. Makes the goal of One World, One People easier for the global elitists to accomplish. From the TV, cell phones and everywhere will come the message, your government is your friend. Could the Hunger Games be coming? 💀🔥👁
Hom
Robbie Sun: glory days my ass along came the bikers and they ruined everything!!
@@twiceisneverenough your right there mate, and the Hunger pains are coming.
Grew up on these cats in the 60's and by mid 70's I knew I was gonna be a Biker or die tryin...bout my first HD in 1978 and by God, I have had 40 years of fun ridin and partin with some of the coolest folks ever.
This is from the year I was born!! Badasses!! My husband and I both ride! Love seeing the cool bikes!!
When i was in California i was going down the freeway in my Volkswagen and all of sudden a loud rumble sound came behind me i looked in the mirror hear comes the hells angles two rows doing about 90mph i pulled over to the breakdown lane it took a while for them to go by they were on the way to the sturgis bike week i thought it was cool at the end of the bikes was about 10 hiway patrol cars with there lights going but what was even cooler was nobody was stopping and when they were done i had witnessed a once in the lifetime sight hells angles forever!
And what you were witnessing was the end of the good times and the love. thanks to them everything is ruined. i feel sorry for the kids of today, the bikers ruined EVERYTHING.
Sounds like an amazing memory. I wasn't born till 69. Love choppers...
We used to see HA runs all the time back in the early 1970's going through San Bernardino on the 10 freeway, My brother was 14 in 1971 and I was 10 years old and we were riding in the back of my dad's Chrysler Newport driving from Pasadena to Palm Desert. Everyone waved and smiled, My dad used to look just like Jim Backus from Gilligan's Island
AngELS NOT ANGLES SMH
Much RESPECT for the Hell Angels. Then n now😎
Long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
It was a very different time now they stop you give you legal advice or medical care
Yep
Not far enough...next galaxy please...hugh wtf!!
Life was good and jobs had good pay.
This was back when Bikers were Real Bikers and Harleys were real Harleys.
There’s also a few Triumphs and others in there too
@@nigeh5326 and BSA, and what ever the hell you wanted to make. you can still do that but have to jump through hoops sometimes to get a title and a registration.
@C Hoc your lucky these people are not here they would be trump supporters and would KICK yo ASS
@C Hoc you lucky Im not there I kick yo ass bad
@@monmixer as long as you have a registered serial # and title on the frame, building the bike is easier. not having that makes it difficult
What I'd give to just be 65 again!
nothing but love and respect from me
The girls were so naturally beautiful then.
Sam Brooks back when meth wasn’t a part of biker culture
@@roscoe4092 💔
@Outlaw xd DESTRUCTION 100 epic REDIT moment xDDd whooooooosh
Tristan Swain true but there was speed; perhaps not as addictive.
Love 69re
Great set of vintage pics I always loved the look of those old choppers. I hope all the folks in those pics got to make it to the present and are still living it up. Ride on.
True, but maybe their experiences were worth two lives in todays over legislated, over drama'd world we've got now?
@usmc 03retired Do you know the name of the guy on the bike waving at 0.09? Seen him in a lot of photos and read Sonny Barger's book but don't recall his name. Thanks
@usmc 03retired Yea that's the buck.. I'm the same, don't recall his name coming up in the book but a lot of others did. Just curious.
After a bit more time looking into it, I think that guy could possibly be Terry the Tramp.
Your words are Cool 😎 n respectful Robert.
Thanks
When bikers were bikers. The women were naturally beautiful too.
The woman today choose a dog for a companion then a male treat the dog better too wonder what the hell they do with them god-damned dogs behind closed doors late at night when there's no one else around 🤣🤣🤣 I knew someone who had a dog for a dad I had to beat it over a fence with a stick when his mom was outside sunbathing 🤣🤣🤣🤗
@@Nonconformistwilderbeastman yo, could I ask you to add periods and commas? I had a hard time trying to understand 😅
@@ShiratoriIsOffline I know lol but I did graduate high school in 1981.but grammar wasn't my favorite subject obviously maybe I should maybe take a refresher course somewheres write oh I meant right ha ha ✌️❤️🖖🤞oh I was just kidding on my comment I should have put that in no offense intended I have a warped sense of humor at times sorry bout that ✌️❤️🖖🤞😎
I noticed that too.
....wild people,my crowd!
I sure enjoy looking at these old chops,so many pans and now they are getting rare.
First Shovel was 1966
sportsters were quick for a long time,had to love em to kickstart that beast
And they all packed the red gas jugs cause they only got 100 miles in those small tanks back in the day. 👍
@john thonig Smart custom fix John. Keep on rollin man, shiny side up. 👍💀
The early magneto equipped XLCH Sportsters were bad ass machines but were hard to start. My 71 CH had no mag but had a finicky Tillotston carb with an accelerator pump that flooded easily for a rookie. This bike could easily overtake a Hog or Bonneville but not a well tuned Commando or smoky Widowmaker unless you were passing at highway speeds.
The faster the magnetos turned the more fire/speed.
True that . In 69 I had an XLCH that I sometimes had to kick a hundred times . Had a big hole in the street in front of my house from the kickstand.I knew Frisco Bob and Gypsy Jim back then . Still riding at 73 on a Valkyrie an Indian and a Royal Enfield.
Some of the greatest bikers there are in these pics ,Buzzard ,Hambone, Dougie Poo,Slave Louie...what a time to be alive!
Grew up in those days in Montreal, QC. Canada...... The Satans Choice were our MC..... Watched them ride, party..... They patched over eventually to HAs....... My first bike in 1968 was 1963 Pan and still riding today on my 1995 Sporty...... MC's today are a different bread..... Only a few of us old and greys left that ride..... Ahh the memories..... Ride on people, ride on......
STILL ON A 90,,,1200 / 4 SPEED HERE IN NEW ZEALAND ,,,SHINY SIDE UP FELLOW GREYBEARD !
When freedom meant something. My oh my how times have changed.
dont look to free. being harassed by the cops
@@potatosalad9519 I think you're kind of missing the point. Cops only harass people who live outside the boundary of obedience. They got harassed because they chose the FTW lifestyle. Look at how the man is locking people up in their own homes. Those who easily give up freedom for safety will end up with neither. Never put your life in the hands of the most falable species on earth. Man! 💀
The times haven't taken a turn for the worse. The people have. There's no reason you can't be out there doing what they did. I'm 18 and and I'm a life long biker! Why don't you quit complaining about how life ain't the same and come join us!
@@quantumleap4023 Wow 18 huh. I'm 63 and have lived along time. Army vet and medical career, now retired. Yes times have changed much. My husband and I rode for years he's gone now I'm a widow, sold our bikes. Health not well enough to ride now. You got a lot of living to do pal. I've already lived along time.
@@Hamigal 71 and still riding The big bikes ( a privilege not afforded to many ).
Hell's Angels 1965, but the song is Lynyrd Skynyrd's version of "Call Me the Breeze" from their album Second Helping released in 1974...
Bike life! Being a biker is the most amazing thing to experience
these photos can and will take u back in time.
1965 and not a fat one among them things have changed, ;-)
Desmond, They got old.
Desmond Dwyer ya. A lot of swaz’s back than
Yea, and look how small those bikes look compared to all the baggers they/we ride today!
one fat-ass chick
way too much fat people is an US problem only....
The times when woman's fall in love just with Flowers.✌
Holy shit the contrast between these riders and todays is night and day. Everyone had a full head of hair and none of them had 300 pound love handles scraping the pavement while riding.
BACK when we had no fences, security guards, cops with riot gear , and a man was a man and woman a woman. Built your own custom parts for your bike and you kicked ass if someone messed with what was yours.
And Patriotic to the bone.
Patriotism is fascism in disguise.
The country was a lot stronger then. Globalism is tearing countries and people's spirits to live free apart. One World, One People = One Government. Sounds like the Hunger Games. 💀
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Uhm, no cops in riot gear? Remember a little to do at Kent state?
Really Awesome post thank you ..this is one year before I was born and my first ride was at 7yrs. Old with a outlaw, I loved it and my first big crush was born!!😻
Men and women looked good and fit. It was before the age of fast food and a prescription drug epidemic
Sure, they all ate fresh cooked food they grew themselves in their gardens. And fir their drugs they just didn't need a perscription.
No McDonald's
Back when bikers ate organic and counted calories.
Less processed shit foods too
Yeah, that guy at 2:11 looks a picture of health!
One of the best songs ever recorded!!❤❤
I wasn't wild seeing that guy wearing a swastika on his t-shirt; that made me think how he would look on the wrong end of a 1911 - however, seeing the video made me homesick for America; I loved living there. Now I'm a stranger in a strange land - I'm talking about America, son; I still live here but it sure ain't 1965 anymore; or '75 or '85 or even '95. What an effing drag - I'm glad my parents aren't around to see this.
what's wrong with the swastika?
@XGamerZoca really
The SoCal Angels would often sport swastikas and other Nazi emblems on their colors back in the day. It wasn’t a show of support or sympathy for Nazi Germany, but rather an antisocial statement because these emblems were so controversial. They wore them to “shake up the squares.”
@@pbyrnetz Too bad they didn't put out a disclaimer on that - the optics are bad.
65 was a great pivotal year. Things were changing fast!
Just before Vietnam.
Great pics with a top ten road song for just running down the highway. 80 mph and this song is damn near flying like an eagle.
Aaaaah, before computers, breathalyzers, drug dogs, helmet laws, exhaust noise laws, emision laws, radar guns, picture drivers licences, smoke in public,...and best of all, regular gas was about 100 octane,....110 at Sunoco.
What ever happened to those special pumps off to the side ?
Sunoco had the best stuff
As long as you were white, good time to be alive.
@@m.b.82 I guess you may not have known about the East Bay Dragons, Fresco Rattlers, Outlaw Vagabonds, Defiant Ones; down South in LA were the Choppers, Soul Brothers & of course, the Chosen Few that shared the FTW sentiment of white mc's back in the 50's and 60's. The Mongols are predominantly Latino-ruled so race was well represented as it was more about living outside the boundaries of the masses and by your own code...FREEDOM. 🔫♠💀
But the man still hassled us Scooter Trash. It was better without all the technology though.FTW
It's sad how the younger generations don't get our biker culture and lifestyle. I had a 'disagreement' with a punk who claimed I wanted too much freedom. I just looked at him and told him he had no idea how free we were riding back in the 60's. So much has been taken away. Ride on brothers. FTW! 💀👊
Those chopper sissy bars at 03:00... holy crap, AWESOME! And every body looked so fit. Like... EVERYbody!
My mom was selling to Animal, Terry,(the Tramp,) and Tiny..lthe same guys in the HUNTER S. THOMPSON PIC back in the 60's, we lived in Sepulveda at Orion....My Mom partied too hard.
RIP 07/03/2003.
We knew a lot of the Red and White back in the day.
Big Smoke Guitar dirty dennis on a 3 wheeler ring a bell.
Love the style on the bikes :-)
I had a 1967 Triumph Trophy 650 TR6 in the 1970's I was to young for the 60's . Where have them good days gone. Great version of the Breeze. FREEDOM BROTHERS
Sissy bars and exhaust pipes way up high. heck yeah!
Increíble compilación de fotos y música!...
Memories, what an era !!
Remember, remember. Love it, I'm sure glad I was able to share every bit of it.
Cool 😎
As someone who grew up in this era, the most shocking part of these pictures? There is not one single fat person.
Very amazing. I got this up as I'm in the middle of Hunter Thompson's Hells Angels - this is all from right around that time
amen to that, i had a 66 ch in 83, 63 pan in a 48 frame from then till now.
currently,my pitys name is,thecbreeze.
i am biker ray from buzzards bay.
I saw one of the guys jacket said Satan's Slaves. Do you remember the part in the book about them?
When California was still free.
remember the song dogs run free. that ended when reagan was in office. BTW first dog i ever knew of that his balls cut off was about 1978. wtf? cut the balls off your dog. not my dog.It all really started about 1965. we used to dance and sing and love was in the air. then the bikers ruined it all!!!!!
Still is.
Before it became the land of.nuts.fruits.and flakes
What state in the union is free today? Even Texas isn't as free as it use to be.
@@lonesometinman3147 California Cream puffs!
DAMN!! These HAD to be some KickAss, Wonderful Times, SIR!!
Not one guy holding a cell phone or wearing skinny jeans with purple hair.Times have softened the man.
Imagine having to “kick start” your bike!!
Oh the humanity!!!
thank you for posting
Both bikes and riders look better back in the day than they do today.
Wrist full cocked, with hand full of throttle hair in the wind, days gone by
Great editing skills. Love all the pics. Love how the song timing matches appropriate pics.
thanks ... but i'm a newbie in video editing ...
The last days of the Wild West. Get me outta’ here, I wanna’ go back....
😎cool
I wish i was born earlier to be able to ride a bike in the 60s out west.
Hey now, the movement ain't over! Grab yourself a mean bike, and a mean leather jacket and let's ride! No time like the present!
Right, the old days and the old ways were best. When men were men and women were women and if you weren't either you just left every one else alone and didn't try to push your agenda on anyone.
I was a little kid but we had HAs living right across the street from us In Hayward Ca. In those days it was common to see between 100 & 300 of them out on the road at any one time. These folks were my influences growing up and I was listening to Steppenwolf and Creedence Clear Water Revival when I was in the third grade. Ah the good ol days 😆🤘
What neighborhood was that in? I remember the Question Marks MC before they were patched over by the HA.
Anyone remember the brown hatters?
Margaret@ highland just up the hill from 7-11 on the right, few houses down on the right side. Sound about right tlrs?
Doggie Diner in Hayward in the 60s.... I remember it well
Yeah Steppenwolf & Creedence Clear Water Rivival.
and some Hendrix and
John Lee Hooker! 😎👍🍺
I was just a baby in 1965 & we lived in L.A. then. I remember as a kid I would always see folks just like them on the road with my parents. Those were more simplified times back then.
Tes
In 1965 I was 13 years old. Saw my 1st group of 81 going through the streets of SAN FRANCISCO. Decided that day I would get a motorcycle the day I turned 18 , & I did!! Went home & asked the folks if they wanted me gone, they said no. $500.00 didn’t get me much / a tired 650 TRIUMPH TT. Didn’t make any difference anyway as the 2nd day I owned it I tore it down & proceded to turn it into a CHOPPER. TOOK me a year or so as I had to buy everything ( only thing left was the motor & frame. I was making less than $2.00 an hour at the time so sold a little weed to supplement my income & expedite the build. 6 over new front end / hard tail / 21 front / 16 rear / all new / & the motor redone by Monroe motors in the lower mission district / a couple blocks from 81’s chopper shop. All said & done / came out great / got stopped a lot by LEO just to check out the build. Was a great time to be young / a great place to grow up. The BIKES / MUSIC / the freedom we felt we had / if only in our minds was great. Northern CALIFORNIA WAS THE PLACE TO BE!!!!!🦅🏍⚒☠️⚡️🌎🇺🇸🏥🦠💣😎 Drove that for a few years than graduated to my 1st HARLEY. A 1959 PANHEAD CHOPPER. 12 over wide glide / ape hangers / forward controls ( made ) nothing on that bike that wasn’t necessary ⁉️⁉️😎
I was a valley girl SFV. Born in the mid 50's and on the back of a Harley by 13. Painter Joe first a Slave and later an HA lived on Roscoe at the time and would often pick me up while I was walking home from middle school which I rarely went to. I've been a biker chick my whole life and will be till I get to join them in whatever happens when I die. I've had a great life. I was always protected and never had anything but the best from any 1% or social biker club that I've been around. The only regret I ever had was I wish I would have been born a few years earlier. So many wonderful men are gone including mine. I also regret a few parties I missed but none I went to. Straight up thanks for posting. I saved a screenshot of Dougie Poo and I of my husband that was taken when I was 10 years old. He was 20 yrs older than me. Please post as many as you can. Our pipes broke and flooded the closet where I had all my pics so this is so much appreciated.
beautiful photos...
No $50,000 custom rides here folks... no orange and black coffee cups and fancy leather boots, tshirts with "Sturgis" on them... These were the REAL deals!
This was BEFORE Sturgis . . . . Before deodorant too.
Hell yea the old school 🔥
❤️❤️❤️ MLLH&R from Amsterdam
Esse sim é o verdadeiro espírito motociclista.
Awesome vid thanks for sharing !! Love the old days simple life !!
Thanks !
The future is bright , the future will always be “ red and white “ awesome pictorial history 💪 . Proper chops . As a 2nd generation “ UK Mod 🛵🛵🛵” I will always have most respect for the ‘ HA ‘ live to ride , ride to live ❤️🖤💪
Thank you for uploading this footage, my old man is very pleased.
SOA Mike pitbull Carlv 👼
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Before Hell's Angels went corporate.
Corporate Angels are C.I.A. infiltrators.
@@robertcubinelli4961 The rest are Navy seals. They are so bogus. Child snatchers for the VIP's and Pimps.
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Yeah, I heard about that...but you find good people and bad people in the best of places.
@@robertcubinelli4961 Yeah, to a lot of people that patch means Child snatcher. I mean what were they fighting about in Las Vegas? A patch? Honor? Cookies? Las Vegas is where the big auctions go on, with Sheikhs from all over paying good money for the right victim.
BEFORE HELLS ANGELS WENT RAT YOU SAY!!!
Just boys out having fun with motorcycles
Thats right... boys, not men
Oh yeah sammy? Tuff guy?
just nazis
I grew up in Pacifica California and my father with friends with an Oakland chapter member of the hells Angels. When I was 6 years old my dad used to make me go up to him and pull on his pants, finally he would look down at me and say what. My father made me tell him go piss up a rope!he would pick me up and hold me up in the air I must have been 10 ft off the ground crying like crazy! I'll never forget him!
lovin that jam . i was 2 yrs old when all this happened .
many many cool iron sportsters and no fat birds ....
specialse Long live the Ironheads!
but has wery ugly all girls what video has. newer not touch any this girls ,uglys,many fat, and lot horrible ugly. monsters.
Long long time , crazy 1965 i'm old boy =================== crazy in my mind for longtime
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Yep.....
When I was stationed in Long Beach, I hung around and partied with the Vagos MC in Torrance. I never had a problem with any of them. They were all 100% chill and friendly.
Awesome UA-cam video support 81 Hells Angels Forever
That's pretty awesome, have fun guys and girls. And why the down comments to it, jeez, just everyone having fun and sone cool photography for the time
I was born in 1962. and as far as I'm concerned these are the first BadAss Bikers that were a lot of em coming straight out of the Jungles of Vietnam and working in gangs all together just like Brother's, but the Hells Angel's in them day's that they were in, these were some of the meanest hardcore 60s Hippie Bikers that I witnessed and seen in the old Groovy flower child days, and nobody ever or never crossed any kind of line with no Hells Angel's and that has always been the word from anything or one in life!
A great window in the time...Thank you
Brought back a lot of good memories. Thx
Need a high credit score even for a used Harley these days, "Live free and Ride" days are gone like my youth😎
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