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Friday, June 17, 2011

Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington (POB for short) was a motorcycle club that, in 1947, along with the Boozefighters and the Market Street Commandos, participated in the highly-publicized Hollister incident (later immortalized on film as The Wild One).
After the Hollister incident, a prominent Pissed Off Bastard named Otto Friedli (28 Jun 1931 - 17 Mar 2008) split with the club and formed his own group on March 17, 1948 in Fontana, just west of San Bernardino. He called it the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. In 1954 Otto's new club merged with the Market Street Commandos to become the Hells Angels San Francisco Chapter.

Official History

They were the original outlaw motorcycle and car club. A few miles south of Berdoo, in the small town of Bloomington in 1945, a particular group of veterans and POBOB founder Otto Friedli who was too young to have served in the war, found civilian life to be too slow and set out to get more thrills by riding motorcycles and hot rod cars. Then on July 4, 1947, in Hollister, California where the AMA (American Motorcycle Association) sanctioned the Gypsy Tour Run, the Boozefighters, POBOBs (Pissed Off Bastards Of Bloomington) and the Market Street Commandos took over the town for nearly three days. The POBOB's played an integral role in the Hollister incident, on which the movie "The Wild One" was based, staring Marlon Brando.