Comments on: LIFE Archive | Hell's Angels c. 1965

By: SrR

SrR — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:32:47 +0000

An Alignment ahead of time from the exposure… Berdoo.

Born in 53 support ever since.

By: pilato jr. 1993

pilato jr. 1993 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:16:06 +0000

hells angels and black shadow nel cuore…4E
don t forget….

By: Llewelyn Moss

Llewelyn Moss — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:09:16 +0000

Did you tediously have to rename all of the photographs as you downloaded them?

By: benedict

benedict — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:19:11 +0000

On Danny Lyons – I just picked up Bikeriders and The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. I brought it to a rider I work with (he’s a designer, basically the quintessence of effortless cool) to show him. He smiled, and said,

“I used to live next door to Danny Lyon [in NYC]. One time he went away to shoot and he asked if I would feed his snake. I agreed, he said, just go to the pet store, buy a mouse, and drop it in the cage. So I did, and the snake coiled around it, killed it, but didn’t eat it. Two days later I got back to Danny’s place and the place stank of dead mouse. I had to reach into the cage and fish around for a dead mouse. I thought, ‘this is lousy.’”

By: JP

JP — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:01:24 +0000

Bill- very well said.

By: robbie

robbie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:28:28 +0000

I would give my left pinkie toe for that oval ‘sign of good taste’ coke sign.

To chime-in on what JP said, my grandfather once asked me to change out of jeans if I planned on eating dinner in his home.It is amazing how something worn by ,’okies’, criminals, and other not so desirable folks has become a staple.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:44:50 +0000

In 1965, though, weren’t *all* jeans selvedge jeans?

They hadn’t invented the wide looms yet, that killed off selvedge.

Selvedge is an inadvertent artifact of the fabric industry, not a decoration or an indicator of superior quality. It only became those things, in the case of denim, after the fact of the near extinction of the narrow looms denim had been made on. Wool suiting comes with selvedge too, but nobody fetishizes it; they just cut it off and throw it away.

By: P Night

P Night — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:03:27 +0000

Shits cool. But remember these guys are still bikies. 3 days ago in Kingsford Smith airport in Sydney 5 Hell’s Angels killed a guy with the steel poles used to hold up velvet rope. Crazy.
Also if you like the feeling of old time life stuff. There is a contemporary artist call Simryn Gill, who sanded the text off every page of the Time/Life world series from the 60′s, needless to say the books look amazing.

By: Warren

Warren — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:50:15 +0000

I certainly have no ground in this respect, but I often chuckled at some of today’s bikers who are nothing but caricatures of yesteryear’s Angels.

But what are these side mirrors about in some of these photos? Angels don’t roll with mirrors!!!

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:33:44 +0000

Can I just say that ALL of the Life photos are staged. Everyone knows this. Also, re: motor cycle gangs & meth. They call it crank because bikers would hide it in the “crank” cases on their bikes. That’s a little known fact not worth knowing — as my old man would say.

ACL