Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendal)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
Known for
Surfing
Parent(s)
Kay Williams Adolph Bernard Spreckels II
Relatives
Clark Gable (stepfather) Claus Spreckels (great-grandfather)
Bunker Spreckels (born Adolph Bernard Spreckels III; August 15, 1949 – January 7, 1977) was an American surfer and an early pioneer of a surfboard design.
He was the great-grandson of German-born sugar baron Claus Spreckels and was heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune.[1] Spreckels became the stepson of Clark Gable when his mother married the actor.[2]
Spreckels met surf photographer Art Brewer in 1969 at the surf spot known as Banzai Pipeline while Brewer was on a three-month photo shoot for Surfer magazine.[2]
^Brewer, Art; Stecyk III, C.R. (2007). Bunker Spreckels Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence.
^ abGeorge, Lynell (23 December 2007). "A Surfing God Rides Again". LA Times.
BunkerSpreckels (born Adolph Bernard Spreckels III; August 15, 1949 – January 7, 1977) was an American surfer and an early pioneer of a surfboard design...
married to Adolph Bernard Spreckels II, a sugar heir, from 1945 until 1952, with whom she had two children (including BunkerSpreckels). Williams was married...
Douglas Fairbanks; the couple divorced in 1952. Kay Spreckels In 1955, Gable married Kay Spreckels (née Kathleen Williams), a thrice-married former fashion...
Lucifer 4 mins. Color with no sound; "A Tribute to my Surfing Pal Adolph BunkerSpreckels III" "BUNKY". A young man with a white Mercedes, the rolling waves...
white" frosted light bulb BunkerSpreckels (Adolph Bernard Spreckels III), 27, American surfboard designer and heir to the Spreckels Sugar Company fortune...
husband remarried to Dorothy Spreckels (daughter of Sugar tycoon Adolph B. Spreckels and his wife, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels). She died in Paris on July...
Wells Fargo, the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and the Crocker and Spreckels families. Throughout the 1920s, Herman began making a name for himself...
Washington – General John W. Sprague (railroad executive) Spreckels, California – Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate) Stacy, California – Stacy Spoon Stafford...
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