The Bunker Spreckels Fantasy: Reckless Pleasure-Seeking and Eternal Life
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When I was in my early 20s, my friends and I became enthralled with Bunker Spreckels, the legendary surfer, stepson of Clark Gable, and heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune. Bunker wasn’t initially in line to inherent the fortune. He was seemingly content living a vagrant lifestyle, selling surfboards and eating fruit in Hawaii. But on his 21st birthday, he ended up with the whole thing—tens of millions of dollars dumped on his head. He didn’t just adjust his lifestyle by, you know, buying a house on the beach and hiring a financial advisor—something a normal person might do. Rather, he set out to spend every penny in the most lavish way imaginable.
The Bunker Spreckels Fantasy: Reckless Pleasure-Seeking and Eternal Life
The Bunker Spreckels Fantasy: Reckless…
The Bunker Spreckels Fantasy: Reckless Pleasure-Seeking and Eternal Life
When I was in my early 20s, my friends and I became enthralled with Bunker Spreckels, the legendary surfer, stepson of Clark Gable, and heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune. Bunker wasn’t initially in line to inherent the fortune. He was seemingly content living a vagrant lifestyle, selling surfboards and eating fruit in Hawaii. But on his 21st birthday, he ended up with the whole thing—tens of millions of dollars dumped on his head. He didn’t just adjust his lifestyle by, you know, buying a house on the beach and hiring a financial advisor—something a normal person might do. Rather, he set out to spend every penny in the most lavish way imaginable.