Bunker spreckels biography of martin

          Bunker books Vol I & II are nearly pages created by Art, documenting his adventures and travels with Bunker Spreckels.

        1. Synopsized by Matt Warshaw as “High-born surfing hedonist of the late s and early '70s; heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune and stepson to.
        2. Bunker was a visionary.
        3. The great-grandson of Hawaiian sugar baron Claus Spreckels and stepson of Clark Gable, “Bunker” is photographed here in oversized sunglasses and.
        4. Bunker Spreckels C R Stecyk: Bunker Spreckels.

          5. Bunker was a visionary..

          The Tale of Bunker Spreckels

          Bunker Spreckels: Surfing’s Divine Prince of Decadence

          The tale of Bunker Spreckels (1949–1977) reads like a pitch for a movie to rival Boogie Nights: the stepson of Clark Gable is a privileged Los Angeles party boy who is heir to a multimillion–dollar fortune; passionate about surfing, martial arts, guns, and women, he lives the life of a debauched international jet-setter before succumbing to his excesses at the tender age of 27.


          Born Adolph B.

          Spreckels III, heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune, Bunker became a famous surfer as a teenager, but after his inheritance came along, he began to slip into a life of pomp and excess where surfing took a back–seat to drugs, sex, and wild road trips.

          So remarkable was his lifestyle that he created an alter ego who invited photographers and documentarists to trail him, piecing together a tell-all epic of his own rise to fame and fortune. Before the project, known as “The Player,” could be compl