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Holly 16-Jul-2007 03:56
Hi David, Tad states it pretty well, but the Chuy you asked about was a Padilla, I think first cousin to Block , and of course like all off the Herrara and Padilla, Men and Women, stunningly beautiful. All I remember was he was super smart and and a Vicking Football Fan
Guest 07-May-2006 05:47
David,
Fernando, Marky,Buddy...All gone. Victims of the gang they helped to create. Many of the members of V13 were jumped in under my bedroom window. Fernando was one of the vary rare individuals to make a break from the gang life. As`I recall Fernando was murdered by a woman he knew. This may be a bit of revisionist history... Here goes. When the Friedman's moved to the Cabrillo House, the neighborhood really revolved around the homes of two families. The Hererra's and the Padilla's. Steve Hererra was the oldest Hererra brother and the one to keep me out of trouble. To shorten this a bit, I dragged him down to the Breakwater. He then provided the key to many of the Chicano's that came to call the beach and the breakwater their home.

Tad
venicepix24-Dec-2005 06:06
Well Holly, there's a picture of Karra right in front of your house
[http://www.pbase.com/venicepix/image/47584253 ]
Kel and his brother lived on Market, perhaps after you moved to Pleya del Rey
[http://www.pbase.com/venicepix/kelly_and_tim ]
and of course venicepix is me (now isn't that helpful!)
I seem to remember a Marky but I just can't quite picture him....was there a Chuy too?
(and if you see Tad would you ask him to perhaps clarify his original comment that started this thread....he can mark it private if he wants...but I can change the original comment if approriate...)
Guest 24-Dec-2005 03:41
I am not sure if I know any of you, I moved to Playa Del Rey, before going away to College at Humboldt - but Fernando and I would sit on our porch on Cabrillo for hours - he would never really say much and I was on the look out for his cousin, Marky.
~Holly
Karra 01-Dec-2005 06:18
I like how you put this, Venicepix, I wish I was writing my dissertation on it (someone should, hint hint). But the questions remains,
What happened to little Fern? Did he really die? Or was the previous writer referring to Big Fern?
venicepix29-Nov-2005 03:16
I think I initially mis-read Kel's last comment, but on second reading it makes sense to me... This site is really all about a kind of secret society that kids have. It has probably always existed and probably always will. ....god knows exactly how it gets passed down from one 'generation' to the next.....New kids grow into it and old ones grow out of it.....
Localism in surfing is really a separate phenomenom. It blossomed like a red tide when surfing went from being an obscure sidebar into being a huge mass-marketed sport. Light-weight boards and wetsuits had a lot to do with it.
The two issues joined together from the mid sixties into the early nineties and created something which was somewhat unique. In Venice, with the added influence of the gangs and the dissatisfaction with the rapid gentrification of the neighborhoods, it created something that got more than a bit a bit out of hand....
To me, the notion of localism is a meaningless construct for skaters. You can really skate anywhere.... but the pecking order of young dudes can exist anywhere too....it just seems to be able to appear out of thin air, sort of like you'll sudenly find bass swimming around in a surburban run-off pond..OK, it'll always be around, but that doesn't mean you have to take it all that seriously....
KelVBWL 27-Nov-2005 21:46
When I say it was never the same I mean, thats kind of when the KOOK ERA began, and if you started surfing BreakWater/hangin in Venice after that.. then yer not really a local, that era and "localizing" died with Fernando "The Enforcer's" passing. There was no longer a pecking order and/or dues being paid. To 'me' ONLY our children have this right, and thank god they are holding it down. Theres a whole new generation of surf/skaters.

It humors me big time to see them running around like we did, but they are all good kids, its kinda the same but without the violence.
KelVBWL 27-Nov-2005 21:24
'BIG' Fernando, is sario's brother
KelVBWL 27-Nov-2005 20:41
BIG Fern passed a few years ago (90's) was shot by some crazy bitch. I really miss him.. Breakwater was never the same without him. Thats LITTLE Fern in the pic tho-
Guest 27-Nov-2005 19:59
I'm so sorry to hear about Fernando, R.I.P.
Guest 27-Nov-2005 19:51
Fern is dead? Please tell me what happened....
Guest 26-Nov-2005 22:43
I watched Fernado get jumped into "the gang" right under my bedroom window.
Before he died, he had the guts to get jumped out. He took an incredible beating both times.

Tad
Guest 18-Jun-2005 23:33
I love this one, the what-the-f*ck grumpy boredom of it, again, great composition.
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