Market Street Commandos

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]

  1. ^ Hell's Angels, The History Channel, 1998
  2. ^ 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. ^ 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 Archived 2011-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ 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