Spreckels by Stecyk

i'm sure most have seen this but a great interview...... B Bunker Spreckels lived fast - and died young. Born into a $50m fortune, he left his family to surf in Hawaii. There, the playboy prince revolutionised the sport before, 30 years ago, his excesses caught up with him, at the age of just 27. In his previously unpublished last interview, he talks to CR Stecyk III about groupies, surfing on acid and meeting Satan. Born in 1949, Adolph B Spreckels III - great grandson of a Germany-born sugar baron, railway tycoon and publisher, Claus Spreckels - grew up in the lap of luxury. When he was five, the world's most famous man became his stepfather. Clark Gable schooled him in the art of hunting and revealed the illusory insanity of the image factory to his young charge. Following Gable's death in 1960, he would use the star's Oscar as a doorstop. continued..