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West Bureau (no login)
Posted Mar 8, 2009 12:33 AM
Jeez, you really won't give up this AB/Irish stuff.
Here's the straight dope you won't find in Snopes or Wikipedia.
All of the shit out there is just tidbits of info that was garnered from strands of other tidbits.
The 'Net shrapnel of bullshit is everywhere and the morons who take these reference sites as gospel are even worse.
The Bluebird Gang was maybe 10-20 guys at best. They were just a bunch of dudes who got rolled up and ended up in the same joint when Quentin was the biggest show in town. They are long gone and were never patched over into the HA.
Hell, if you ask active AB guys today what the history of their crew is you'd get 20 different answers.
The Irish angle and AB is nothing. They used the 'rock as a symbol to show how they were against Christian morals and as a shock to the conscience. It's anti-eastablishment.
Cali cons that were part Irish were mostly Proties anyway. The Catholic Irish dominated the Northeast, not the west coast. |
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