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The Perez Family Gallery

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Guest 04-Jan-2008 23:37
hey Javier and Jaime! I'm Richard Jimenez who used to work with you guys at the gas station on Lincoln and Mindanao. Good to hear you guys are still good and well. Let Juandy know I said hi also.
Gilbert (Bernie) 20-Aug-2005 01:55
I agree, hanging out at the Breakwater back them was serious stuff and everyone who surfed was Anglo. During that time period, if you were Latino you probably had friends or family that were part of the VENICE 13 and surfing was considered un-cool by them. Its funny cause our best friend Jesse Martinez used to get hassled by his brother (a.k.a. Topo, V13) sometimes for going to the beach to surf. The formation of the MSA made it cool for many Venice latinos to start surfing. My brothers and I (i.e., Tonan, Peter, and I - Gilbert (a.k.a., Bernie, the kneeboarder) are of Colombian decent and I think we felt more close to the Perez bros and other surfers of Latino decent during that time period. Curious, but did many of you know that Glen and Billy Yuron are Latinos? Preguntenles un dia de estos.
Guest 10-Aug-2005 22:12
I agree with Jav's comments. It was hell trying to hang out at the Breakwater before there was an MSA (thanks Block). And we weren't even surfing. All we wanted to do was boogie board and kick board. Thanks to MSA us Latino surfers changed things at the Breakwater.
venicepix10-Aug-2005 22:11
Welcome Javier and thanks for the insights (which I moved here from another page). There are two comments that apply to yours at this pagehttp://www.pbase.com/venicepix/image/45056359. ps: if you leave me a comment marked PRIVATE with an email address at either the Guestbook (on top with the pbase buttons) or at the the bottom of the "A Meeting Place" gallery I'll fill you in a bit about the past 20 years...
javiervbwl 10-Aug-2005 22:10
(originally29-Jul-2005 08:12)
Wow! I was driving home south on the 405 the other day and my brother Jaime calls me on my cell and asks if I had seen the vbwl website and I said "what are you talking about?". He told me that you, David, had posted a Venicepix website of many upon many classic vbwl photos! I said NO WAY!!! Right away, deep down in my heart, I knew exactly what he was talking about. No more than about a month or two ago I asked myself, "what the hell happened to David and all those 15,000 pictures of venice and the Venice Breakwater Locals?" I asked, because Venice and the Venice Breakwater was an amazing place to have grown up in and hanged around.

For me and my brothers, Jaime, Jose, Pablo and Jorge, the Breakwater was an amazing place. But it was down right scary and dangerous at first. Being Mexican and entering a place where everybody looked like they did in the very first gallery...http://www.pbase.com/venicepix/venice_locals_one
..can you blame us? In the very beginning we would either walk or ride our skateboards down the main entrance into the Breakwater just like everybody else did......with one exception...we were doing it at 7am just like they were. Needless to say, we got dogged bigtime!!! But we kept going except we started to enter the Breakwater on the north side. These guys were brutal but we persisted, got accepted by these O.G.G.G.G. original Venice Locals of yester-year, hung out with them and the rest they say is history. I personally remember being dogged by Doug not only at the Breakwater but also at station 27 in Santa.

So many stories. It's good to see a lot of the locals coming in here and sharing their thoughts. This is an awesome site David. Funny how things work out sometimes. I was literally asking myself what had happened to you and all these photos! Amazing! For me and a lot of us this is where it all started, with these guys. And each one of them has their own amazing story. As they say, "a picture is worth thousand words".

Congratulations David! This is amazing!

javier
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