Everyone knows about the dreaded Hell’s Angels Motorbike gang. Formally known as the HAMC or Hell’s Angels Motorcycle club, the biggest icon of the notorious group is the signature Harley Davidson. Being an all-white male biker gang, Federal authorities in the US and Canada widely regard them a notorious crime syndicate From meth to murder and molestation, the notorious gang officially turned 70 last month. Here are some infamous and inside vintage photos of America’s most dangerous biker gang.
A young member enjoys a ride on his Harley outside Bakersfield California. The club was officially conceived on March 17, 1948, by World War II veteran family called the Bishop family form Fontana California.
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The name “Hells Angels was inspired by American flying squadrons of WWI and WWII. One of them was notably the Flying Tigers' "Hell's Angels" that served in China.
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Here is a group of women who are wives and girlfriends of Gang members taken during a run from San Bernardino to California in 1965. They were referred to as “The Old Ladies.”
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Members hanging out a picnic table. The man with the bandaged forehead is Sonny Barger of Oakland who started the Oakland California chapter of the gang in 1957.
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Although the biker gang prides itself on its male masculinity and a heterosexual image, it wasn’t uncommon for male bikers to kiss each other in public just to antagonize people in those days.
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This was a then-secret photo acquired by a journalist in 1970 of the Manhattan east Village headquarters.
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An LA County Sheriff deputy stops a gang member to search him for illegal items and weapons in Bakersfield California 1965.
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Hell’s Angels members fight at the Altamont free concert in 1969 where it was reported that one concertgoer was stabbed to death.
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Hells Angels Biker doing a wheelie in the middle of the road in Bakersfield 1965
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Yes they loved her music. This is famous gang member Terry the Tramp with Tabla maestro Ustad Allah Rakha.
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Another famous gang member Buzzard enjoying the ride on an open road from San Bernardino to Bakersfield in 1965.
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Here are Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts with gang members at the Altamont free concert in December 1969.
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This is one of the many photographs taken by LIFE photographer Bill Ray who travelled with the gang in 1965, it wasn’t carried by the magazine but published only recently in 2015.
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Here is another vintage photograph taken from the archives of LIFE magazine.
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Another colorized snapshot of two members of the gang cruising down a California highway in 1965
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Hells Angels Old ladies (girlfriends and wives of gang members) hang out in Blue Blaze bar California in 1965.
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Bike members clashing with anti-Vietnam War supporters at Berkley Oakland. 35 members of the gang broke down barricades and attacked the protesters. Just two bikers were arrested and one police officer suffered a broken nose.
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Taken in 1965, this shows one of the leading Oakland members Sonny Barger being stitched by a nurse.
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Members pay their last respects at the funeral of gang member Jeffery Coffrey in New York on March 11th 1971. Coffrey was killed during a fight with another Biker gang in Cleveland.
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Rock artist Joan Jett is seen posing on the bikes of one of the gang members in New York sometime in 1985.
An FBI agent cuffs and takes away a Hells Angels member suspected of being party to narcotics and weapons. Taken in Albany 1985.
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Onlookers watch curiously at bikers pulling up to the Emma Children’s Hospital in Amsterdam on June 24th 1987 to visit sick children.
The icon of the Hell’s Angel’s gang and its signature trademark the good old American Harley.
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Taken on May 2nd, 1985, where FBI is guarding the clubhouse on east 3rd street Manhattan after a raid
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The Daly City chapter of the Hells Angels gang posing in Daly for a group photo
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