The Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington (POBOB) is a

motorcycle club A motorcycle club is a group of individuals whose primary interest and activities involve motorcycles. A motorcycle group can range as clubbed groups of different bikes or bikers who own same model of vehicle like the Harley Owners Group. Ther ...

that, in 1947, along with the Boozefighters and the

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 On ...

, participated in the highly publicized

Hollister riot The Hollister riot, also known as the Hollister Invasion, was an event that occurred at the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA)-sanctioned Gypsy Tour motorcycle rally in Hollister, California, from July 3 to 6, 1947. Many more motorcyclists ...

, later immortalized on the film as ''

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'' (1953)''.''

History

The POBOB was among the earliest motorcycle and car clubs in California; they were established a few miles west of

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, in the small town of Bloomington in 1945. Then on July 4, 1947, in

Hollister, California Hollister is a city in and the county seat of San Benito County, located in the Central Coast region of California. With a 2020 United States census population of 41,678, Hollister is one of the largest cities in the Monterey Bay Area and a ...

where the

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(AMA) sanctioned the Gypsy Tour Run, the Boozefighters, POBOB and the

took over the town for nearly three days. The POBOB members played an integral role in the

, on which the movie ''

'' was based, starring Marlon Brando. Two months later, the same clubs went to

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for the Labor Day weekend, another AMA-sanctioned event. The same thing happened again as it did in Hollister. Over four thousand people, including bikers from out of town and local residents, took over the town's main street. A Riverside sheriff, Carl Rayburn, blamed a bunch of punk kids for disrupting his town, saying "They're rebels, they're outlaws." In 1948, the AMA supposedly made a statement that ninety-nine percent of the motorcyclists are good people enjoying a clean sport and it is the one percent that are anti-social barbarians. The term " one percenter" is born. Three years later the P.O.B.O.B. MC came back as a

(minus the car club), in the city of Fontana known as Felony Flats. The club still exists today with a large group of members known as the Pissed Off Bastards of Berdoo, throughout

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and

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and

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.''The official POBOB MC website''
/ref> Their colors are Red & Blue. The red standing for the blood shed. The Blue represents the loyalty. the back patch consists of a top rocker (p.o.b.o.b.) a center patch is named ace he is a skull wearing a bomber hat. The bottom rocker show's the state of origin of the Patchholder. The club motto is PFFP (P.O.B.O.B Forever Forever P.O.B.O.B) One former Pissed off Bastards member, Otto Friedli, is credited with founding the

Hells Angels The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is a worldwide outlaw motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporati ...

in Fontana after breaking from the POBOB over a feud with a rival gang.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pissed Off Bastards Of Bloomington Outlaw motorcycle clubs History of San Bernardino County, California 1945 establishments in California Motorcycle clubs in the United States Hells Angels