Bunker Spreckels: Surfing’s Divine Prince of Decadence - Art Brewer and C.R. Stecyk III

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When Californian Adolph ‘Bunker’ Spreckels came into a massive inheritance, he went on a wild and infamous binge of surfing, skateboarding, travelling and hedonism before his death in 1976.

An able surfer who shunned contests, Spreckels collaborated with some of the era’s best shapers, producing enough glorious surfing vessels to secure his mostly unheralded contribution to performance and board design.

This book consists of a long interview with Stecyk just before Spreckels’ drug overdose at twenty-seven and is illustrated with classic action shots and candid portraits by the perennial Art Brewer, who was for a time Bunker’s long-suffering personal photographer.

An excellent insight into the short life and ego of a man who was both a surfing pioneer and the sport’s original Hollywood rock star.