Sunday, January 11, 2009

!!! photos stashed for 41yrs!!!

i was working at a wood shop a few years ago
and one of the old guys the uses the shop told me
he had some old black&white photos of some -Hells Angels-
he knew from school. i expected some shitty snapshots or maybe
even some random biker photos. it took him about a year or so to
dig em up. he took em in 1967 and had stashed them shortly after.
so one day he comes in the shop and calls me over and opens up
a folder and the photos layed out before me are the beautiful
8x10 photos that you see below. i was floored.

how often do you get to see shots like this that you have never seen.
and i got the story from how it all went down:

Mike said he was driving his 60's chevy van on slyline in the
Oakland hills. as he rounded a corner he saw all the bikes scattered about
and a few club members he had went to school with. mike happened to have his
camera with him because he was out shooting photos anyway. he said his
hello's to his friends and clicked away. they were out filming "hells angels
on wheels" and hadstopped to change film.
enjoy max

and a special thanks to Mike Serpa for the photos


how cool is to see a photo of sonny barger that you have never seen


righteous knuckle. check the the springer extension.
mike says all the girls wore a lot "paint on there faces"


below -joe pinkston- oddly enough mike says he knew joes as a kid
from rollerskating. "yeah lots of peolple were rollerskating back then"


bold


dennis burns below:

22 comments:

scott pommier said...

what timing!

thanks mike, thanks max.

Big Scott said...

Unreal!! thanks Max

-|Giannis~SpeedJunkies|- said...

Thanks for Sharing!

LivingMinimal said...

man, that's awesome. I read the wholes story, saw the first pic, and out loud went "holy SHIT!" really cool stuff man.

mindpill said...

lucky........

abes.f. said...

2nd photo. two guys in the back. quite possibly the baddest motherfuckers ever.

Dan said...

fuckin A- another diamond in the rough..these are totally righteous

shiftace said...

gives chills looking at these pics. thanks

STANDARDJOSH said...

G....O....L....D!

nic said...

the dude in the background of the "sonny" pic kinda looks like you.

LUCKY said...

ORGINAL KINGS OF BADASS!!

MP Roget said...

It is moments like this, that we all hope for, huh?

Guy@GK said...

And that's why this Blog is the best!

jbfrmca said...

mutha fuck those are bad ass.
too bad you put your logo big as fuck on those.(just bustin' on ya)

max schaaf said...

yeah sorry about the logo thing.
mike asked me to.. so that someone else didn't claim they were theirs.

"Mother" said...

Those are some righteous Photo's.... Max

Daniel K said...

Great stuff!!!

RyGar said...

Amazing. Thanks. These guys make the bands in Glen Friedman's "Fuck You Heroes" look like a bunch of sissies.

Ericka; Eek said...

wow, genuine!

Mark Harris said...

I guess they're cool...I mean they're no Sons of Anarchy but whatever.
Just kidding, this is why I check your blog daily, Max.

Organizing-in-progress said...

Max that guy in the background of the sonny pic DOES look like you. Minus the poofy hair. His, not yours bro.

max schaaf said...

4Q shampoo and -condition-er
fall 09.... and i will have the hair.