Working out of their “club house” the fellows organized and held the first annual Black Widows Poker Run benefiting the Shriners children in the fall of 1996. Thank you, Clint Eastwood, for that movie and thank you for ten years of direction to give the Shriners children hope and healing.”įor the remainder of their Laughlin ride, the wheels of imagination were in motion. At a rest area, a young-old woman admired the motorcycles and asked, ‘Are you the Black Widows?’ One biker answered, ‘Yes, we are, and we are feared at gas stations and rest areas throughout the land!’ And, thus the ‘Black Widows’ were born. “One day in 1996, twelve people rode to Laughlin.
