Category Archive: 1970s

ARLEN NESS’ SECRET WEAPON DURING THE ’70s CHOPPER BOOM | JEFF McCANN

ARLEN NESS’ SECRET WEAPON DURING THE ’70s CHOPPER BOOM | JEFF McCANN

* * Jeff McCann, who discreetly signs his works with his hidden signature “Motorcycles Forever” got his first bike back in ’65, at the age of 20.  An accomplished artist, McCann began customizing motorcycles a few years later, and soon found him…

 

BUDDY MILES | THE BAND OF GYPSY’S FUNKY BADASS MOTHER DRUMMER

BUDDY MILES | THE BAND OF GYPSY’S FUNKY BADASS MOTHER DRUMMER

* Buddy Miles– blues/rock funkmaster legend if there ever was one.  Miles was given the nickname “Buddy” as a child by his aunt– after the original drumming legend, Buddy Rich.  He and Jimi worked their way up in the music scene together arou…

 

BIKES, BIKINIS, BEER & BEACH | VINTAGE DAYTONA BEACH BIKE WEEK

BIKES, BIKINIS, BEER & BEACH | VINTAGE DAYTONA BEACH BIKE WEEK

* Daytona Beach during the Golden age of the ’70s & ’80s.  Before Bike Week became  some three-ring commercialized circus of fake boobs on a stick, there were riders and vanners of a kindred spirit who came to hang out, party on the beach, ch…

 

OLD SCHOOL STYLE ON THE SLOPES | JEAN-CLAUDE KILLY

OLD SCHOOL STYLE ON THE SLOPES | JEAN-CLAUDE KILLY

* From the desk of Contributing Editor, Eli M. Getson– * Circa 1946 — (original caption) Hollywood Stars Ski at Sun Valley.  Active sports are the best things in the world to relax one after a session before the Kleig lights, and these Hollywood …

 

BOB MARLEY & THE SPORT OF SOCCER | NATURAL MYSTIC OF THE PITCH

BOB MARLEY & THE SPORT OF SOCCER | NATURAL MYSTIC OF THE PITCH

* From the desk of Contributing Editor Eli M. Getson– * * I have always been fascinated by Bob Marley’s love of football, or as we say in America– soccer. The many images that captured his playing in formal games, or just juggling the ball, show…

 

ULTIMATE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ON WHEELS | THE 1970’s VAN CUSTOMIZATION CRAZE

ULTIMATE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ON WHEELS | THE 1970’s VAN CUSTOMIZATION CRAZE

* * Once upon a time — or more accurately, back in the 1970s — the van reigned supreme.  Riding in right on the heels of the fading muscle car era, the custom van became the ultimate self-expression vehicle– tricked-out and personalized to show…

 

PHOTOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM GEDNEY | AN AMERICAN ARCHIVE, KENTUCKY

PHOTOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM GEDNEY | AN AMERICAN ARCHIVE, KENTUCKY

* Man driving car and drinking can of beer. Kentucky, 1972. William Gedney Photographs and Writings Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/ * Chances are, if you’…