Just a half century ago, one could be asked an important question, or unknowingly violate a trademark under the guise of, “ Hell I don’t know, or didn’t know” . Back then no Internet as we know it, no real searchable data bases and surely us Mountain desert hellbilly’s had no idea about anything cept what we read in Hot Rod magazine.
Today that ain’t an option. If your in doubt, shute dude, Google it.
The gal from the Times News, said it was just me as sole contact for the AyreWolvez. Okay groovy, but did she take into consideration looking up our parent organization and its history? Any one that has had their feet planted in this valley longer than 20 years damn well knows the Hazzard County Knytes(aka-Knytes-of-Anarchy) likewise KTOW FM that began as an outlaw station on those hills overlooking the Hagerman(aka-Hazzard Idaho) valley. Shute, its because of our club, that Hagerman got the name Hazzard as a nick name.
The Hazzard County Knytes is an amalgamation or mixing of three organizations that were running in the mid to late 1970’s early 1980’s.
The Hazzard County Knytes started with the JR-14 CB Club, The TeenAge Truckers Association, The I-80 Control CB Club, and the Idaho chapter of the RoadMasters Truckers Association.
The creation was culminated in 1981 when during a search for props for a diorama display for another hot rod, a suitable 1970 Dodge Charger was found in Burley. Some late night and day welding and wrenching, and off to the Salt Lake City AutoRama we went in 1981. The producers of the Dukes of Hazzard saw our General Lee, was impressed and invited me there as a on set wrench during leave while enlisted in the UCSMC.
The rest as they say is history.
Now understand, we are not taking all the credit here, but I will say this, much of the economic development of Twin Falls, and immediate area is because of the Hazzard County Knytes extending warm hands of friendship to some major players in bigger corporations, that said, let’s go there.
The fact we brought in from a want and discovery of some personal history as well as enjoyment the AyreWolvez in the year of 2001, from finding 4 F4U Corsairs at the Jerome County airport, was just another good extension of the Hazzard County Knytes.
In 2008 yes I’ll admit, we swapped out organizational names as there were fewer original members of the Hazzard County Knytes in our area. So to enable more urban recruitment of membership, after seeing the TV show Sons of Anarchy, we adopted that and glued together the name Knytes-of-Anarchy. Keeping our history while opening arms for our future.
However all that said we never lost our Confederate rebel spirit or commitment to today’s Southern Movement. Nor our commitment to all things Hazzard. Example me keeping Dixie Toewing(mis-spelled on purpose) intact alongside Hazzard County Choppers(aka Hazzard County Garage) of Burley, right to today. I and many of the rest of us follow suit, proudly fly our rebel flag, turn down the Star Spangled Banner in favor of the Dixie National Anthem, say the pledge of allegiance to Dixie, and the reaction has always been why this in Idaho? Look at Idaho’s history. Idaho was one of those northern states that was a port of rest for weary Confederates who wanted to escape the great war between the states. Such Towns, in Idaho, such as Atlanta, and Dixie were established, even the other core of the name Hazzard, Hazzard Creek the township was established in eastern Idaho near Aberdeen. Even going further in the hills east of Mountain Home in what was the Rocky Bar Complex, was established the Confederate Star Mine, a silver mine.
There is much more, but just because I’m the sole voice of the club as part of my club duties prescribe me to be, and the fact I never ever will disclose other members’ names, unless contacted first, does not mean this club the entire organization that has as its President , Ben Jones aka Cooter on TV who is looking to run in 2016 for President of these U.S. –of A states on the Confederate Party ticket, the Knytes-of-Anarchy, has just under 150,000 members worldwide. And it all started with 15 of us assembled in a meeting in what was then the Polish Palace now the Snake River Grill in 1982 in Hagerman.
Oh and for a listing of members look us up on our upcoming web site, or email me, if I have permission I’ll tell you some club members names. Even one that is now a true to life FBI agent.
L8R Ya’ll and God Bless Dixie!
just hope Dixie broadcasting .com is flowing this morning so I can hear the lecture.
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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