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Hace 6 días · An audience with surfing’s divine prince of decadence. In the winter of 1976/1977 Tracks editor Phil Jarratt was on the North Shore covering the contests and peripheral action in the style that would make him one of surfing’s most famous scribes. It was the first year an official world champion was crowned, Peter Townend claiming the ...
5 de mar. de 2019 · ANTHONY “BUNKER” SPRECKELS "High-born surfing hedonist of the late 60s and early 70s; heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune and stepson to Hollywood actor Clark Gable; contributor to the shortboard revolution.Spreckels was 5 when his mother married Gable; he learned to surf while spending time in Waikiki, not long after Gable's death in 1960.
26 de sept. de 2007 · A fascinating glimpse into the insane life of Bunker Spreckels. At 21, he inherits fifty-million dollars, so like any other reasonable person, he arrives at the bank with an armored car and takes it in cash. This is just one episode in the short life of Bunker Spreckels. Art Brewer's photos perfectly capture the essence of Bunker's wild ride.
Nacido como Adolph B. Spreckels III y heredero del imperio azucarero Spreckels, Bunker se convirtió en un famoso surfista siendo un adolescente, pero después de tomar posesión de su herencia, se inició en una vida de lujo y exceso en la que el surf pasó a un segundo plano en favor de las drogas, el sexo y los viajes salvajes.
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 scenester and poweplayer, and one-man globe-trotting performance artist with his own alter ego. Dedicated equally to guns, martial arts ...
25 de feb. de 2018 · More than 50 years later, a similar fate befell Adolph B. “Bunker” Spreckels III, a champion surfer. Six years after inheriting a sizeable chunk of the family’s wealth, he overdosed at the ...
