{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["184238", "8877", "Rich Toby Pavel", 52, "B2Lose", "Sep 13, 2020", "2020-09-12T21:25:21-0400", "I was fortunate enough to actually get him to pen a chunk of a piece I worked on. Felt like a minor miracle.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(Originally in Slide Surf Mag)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Pendarvis Experience\n\n\n\nBy Rich Pavel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Pendarvis is an individual within a community of individuals.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy impressions grow from knowing the Brythonic Celtic clan of the Pendarvis family of creatives from which Steve hails. His brother Larry was a pioneer of the \"Back to the land\u201d movement up in Oregon. Joyce- a super-cool, sweet and principled mom. Sister Patrice has made a very fine reputation for herself and lives as an artist on the same sacred outer-island where my surfshop \u201cThe Greenroom\u201d was founded in 1970. One of my favorite early boards was one he built for Patty.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI remember so many things about the household. The heady and hilarious wrestling bouts on the backyard lawn amongst the lads between laminations and followed by hot coats. It was the era of backyard soul, homegrown and anti-establishment. Non-commercial boards were the only type allowed in the lineup.  Boards were started at dusk and were then surfed at dawn in your trusted \"Surf & Sea\" wetsuit- your suit still cold, wet and sandy from the prior evening\u2019s session. Having the creation of your board inseminated with the DNA drawn from that week\u2019s running ground swell was all that mattered. You lived for total involvement. Acetone, catalyst, resin fumes and dust wafted through the air out back. Music cranked on vinyl spinning to accompany the open and often revolving door policy on the way in. Always an impressive cast of talent hanging out.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSome of the early peak memories were like bonfire epics burning around week long orgies of \"Wibbulator\" flex-board building, applications and installations. Anybody from Billy Greta or the Biehls to Mike McDonald and the Pleskunas' or the ever gifted Rick \"Ziggy\" Vorce were likely luminaries found within the applied science compound/bohemian think-tank of the Pendarvis family property. It was a little like when I was living in Montecito and going over for visits at the Greenough Estate. Anything and everything was on.  No limits as to what could be explored, felt and thought.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI still enjoy and respect the whole family from the top right on down to the last sibling. When you really get Steve going he's more fun than a barrel of monkeys.  Creative, fun to watch surf, good natured more often than not, industrious as well as intuitive, smart and solution oriented. His wife Cher is an absolute peach! The Greenroom sends him as much work as we can. Long live the Pendo-flex!"]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["184238"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6191700013005175, "license": "Public Domain"}