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The Original Wild Ones

The Original Wild Ones

Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club

by Bill Hayes and Jim Quattlebaum
Paperback
Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 23/10/2016

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Get an inside look at the real beginning of outlaw biker culture with this raucous and heartfelt recounting of the early days of biker clubs (Roadbike). The story starts one weekend in 1947, at a motorcycle race in Hollister, California. A few members of one club, the no-holds-barred Boozefighters, got a little juiced up and took their racing to the street. Word of the fracas spread, and soon enough Life magazine was on hand to tell the world, with sensational (albeit posed) pictures of the outlaws. And then the Hollister riot made its way into the movies, immortalized in Marlon Brandos The Wild One. What was the reality behind the myth? Through interviews with the surviving members of the Boozefighters, current member Bill Hayes and club historian Jim JQ Quattlebaum take readers right into the fray for a firsthand account of what happened in Hollister, and the formation of the Boozefighters, where the outlaw biker culture truly began. The book, with its great stories and entertaining real-life characters (MotorcycleUSA.com), is mandatory reading for anyone interested in American motorcycling history (Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly).
ISBN:
9780760335376
9780760335376
Category:
Motorcycles: general interest
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-10-2016
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
153x229x22mm
Weight:
0.47kg
Bill Hayes

Bill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist, Five Quarts, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Salon, among other publications.

His photographs have been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. He lives in New York.

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