Market Street Commandos Explained

The Market Street Commandos was an outlaw 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 Market Street Commandos merged with the Hells Angels to become their San Francisco chapter.[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.thehistorychannel.com Hell's Angels, The History Channel, 1998
  2. http://www.sonnybarger.com 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. http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470837101.html 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. http://www.missoulian.com/specials/hellsangels/ha02.html 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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