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Aside from Brewer’s incredible photographs (compiled in Taschen’s Bunker Spreckels: Surfing’s Divine Prince of Decadence), it’s Spreckels’ final interview with the American subculture writer CR Stecyk III which is probably most revealing about the final years of his life.There is a tangible matter-of-factness in his answers, such as when he is asked what he spent his money on ...
Discover the wild life and times of surfer turned socialite Bunker Spreckels. Photographer Art Brewer’s images and writer C. R. Stecyk III’s revealing interv...
La historia de Bunker Spreckels (1949-1977) parece el argumento de una película capaz de competir con Boogie Nights: el hijastro de Clark Gable es un privilegiado juerguista de Los Ángeles, heredero de una fortuna multimillonaria; apasionado del surf, las artes marciales, las armas y las mujeres, vive la vida desenfrenada de un personaje de la alta sociedad antes de sucumbir a sus excesos a ...
27 de ene. de 2023 · Bunker Spreckels: Surfing’s Divine Prince of Decadence. The tale of Bunker Spreckels (1949–1977) reads like a pitch for a movie to rival Boogie Nights: the stepson of Clark Gable is a privileged Los Angeles party boy who is heir to a multimillion–dollar fortune; passionate about surfing, martial arts, guns, and women, he lives the life of ...
This exclusive screening of BUNKER77 has ended. Subscribe today to gain access to future film screenings and more TSJ member benefits.. The story of Bunker Spreckels’ brief, wild life is truly stranger than fiction. Heir to a sugar fortune and stepson to Clark Gable, Spreckels was at different points a teenage North Shore surf-rat at the front of surfboard design experimentation, Los Angeles ...
11 de nov. de 2016 · Bunker Spreckels was a wild, colorful man. The scion of the Spreckels Sugar Co. and the stepson of Clark Gable, he was a surfer, a hunter and a jet-setting playboy, who inherited millions at age 21.
Spreckels, Adolph "Bunker" (c.1949 – 1976) Spreckels, Adolph "Bunker". High-born surfing hedonist of the late 1960s and early '70s; heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune and stepson to Hollywood actor Clark Gable; contributor to the shortboard revolution. Spreckels was five when his mother married Gable in 1955; he learned to surf while ...
