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Page 20 Palisades News July 8, 2015Mestres-HernandezThe wedding of Tracy Mestres andAngelica Hernandez took place onMay 16 in their backyard on RadcliffeAvenue.Tracy Mestres grew up in Falls Church,Virginia, and attended Berkeley School ofMusic. Angelica Hernandez grew up inWhittier, California, where she attendedWhittier College before finishing her doctorateat the University of California atLos Angeles.The couple has two children, MattiasMestres Hernandez, 7, and Maya MestresHernandez, 5. Tracy is the owner of BakeSale Palisades and Angelica is a speakerand writer.The brides’ close friends and family werein attendance. Mestres’ brothers RobertZimmerman and Christopher Newmanwalked her down the aisle, while Joe andAlex Hernandez walked their sister downthe aisle. Both pairs of brothers performedthe honor of giving away the brides.Channing Work, who became an AmericanMarriage Ministry Minister for the occasion,officiated. Marmalade Café cateredthe wedding; the cake was by Joanie andLeigh’s Cakes. Kelsey Clark provided thefloral arrangements.The couple honeymooned in Orcas Island,Washington.Sidewalk Sale Is July 11The annual Village-wide sidewalk sale,sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce,will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday,July 11.Five food trucks will arrive at 11 a.m.,and a game truck will be parked in frontof The Yogurt Shoppe.The Sidewalk Sale will feature sales onladies’ sportswear and shoes, men’s wear,lingerie, vintage clothing, children’s clothes,antiques, eye wear, cosmetics, gift shops, ceramicsand jewelry created by local artists.WEDDINGSTracy Mestres and Angelica Hernandez were married in May. Their children, Mattiasand Maya, participated in the ceremony.Photo: Wendy WaddellAPT FOR RENT1BD/1BA – $2595/MOUnique Upper Aerie w/ small Patio,Amazing Ocean, Mntns, & Sunset Views,& Privacy! Quiet 50s Building with solarheatedSwimming Pool, on-site Laundry,on-site Manager, Parking space, lovelyCommon Area, and close walking distanceto Gelson’s Market. Safe, Convenient,great Ambiance. Pet Friendly.THIRD MONTH FREE OFFER!Call Jeff for details : (310) 573-0150Michael C. Solum, PrincipalInsurance and Financial Services Agent881 Alma Real Dr., Suite T-10Pacific Palisades, CA 90272(310) 454-0805msolum@farmersagent.comPaliInsurance.comMICHÉLEBlow Dry Bar + Beauty SupplyBlow Drys $40+1030 Swarthmore Avenue • (310) 454-8022Ninkey DaltonYour Local Neighborhood AgentThe Agency(424) 400-5921www.TheAgencyRE.comPacific Palisades, Brentwood,Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, VeniceMeditation/MusicWorkshop July 18Mindfulness-based psychiatrist and sing -er Lana Benedek and meditation teacherand musician Richard Burr will offer aworkshop centering around music, meditationand stillness from 10 a.m. to 2:30p.m. on Saturday, July 18.A mindfulness practice is built aroundenhancing a person’s ability to be in thepresent moment, to see it clearly and toknow how to respond appropriately.For many, traditional approaches to becomingmindful, such as sitting in silentmeditation, are difficult to practice.Benedek and Burr are presenting thisretreat as a way for those interested inmindfulness and music to experience thetransformative power of being present.The day will be a mix of guided meditations,listening to music, discussions andperiods of silence. This retreat is suitable forboth beginning and experienced meditationstudents.Visit drbenedek.com for more informationor to register, or call Burr, (818)636-2110 (richardburr.com/mediation).Advance registration is required.PAB Meeting SetThe Park Advisory Board will hold itsquarterly meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday,July 22, in the small gym at the park,851 Alma Real Dr. The public is invited.Actual ClientAMAZING MUSIC STORE.COMALL AGES, ALL STYLES!Group & Private Lessons • Instrument Rentals & Sales License #OG51003CalBRE#01437780
July 8, 2015 Palisades News Page 21David Sweet, 86; Iconic Surfing FigureDavid Sweet, a long-time resident ofPacific Palisades who invented thesurfboard that helped inspire theboom in surfing in the late 1950s and early1960s, died of renal failure May 18 at theVA Medical Center in West L.A. He was 86.A Celebration of Life gathering andpaddle-out will be held from 8 to 11 a.m.on Wednesday, July 15 at the Paradise CoveBeach Café, 28128 PCH in Malibu. TheCove will provide free parking and lightrefreshments for attendees. Contact: DaveRochlen at (808) 852-1921.Until Sweet came along, surfboards werelong and bulky, crafted mostly from balsawood. He brought this era to a close byproducing and selling the first surfboardsmade with cores of polyurethane foam, anew synthetic material. They weighed onlyabout 25 pounds.“Dave introduced the world to the joyof surfing by providing lightweight surfboards,”said Palisadian Marty Sugarman, awriter and photographer who has chronicledthe sport since the 1950s. “His decal ona board achieved worldwide recognition.”According to the New York Times obituaryby Bruce Weber, Sweet began selling hisfoam-core boards on Malibu beaches by1956. “[His] boards, lighter and thus moremaneuverable than their balsa progenitors,became the choice of many competitivesurfers,” and he also made boards “for Hollywoodstars like Clark Gable, Dick VanDyke, Jack Lemmon, Eddie Albert andPeter Lawford.”Working in his shop on the corner of14th Street and Olympic in Santa Monica,Sweet built surfboards that inspired otherboardmakers (especially Hobie Alter) andhelped the sport gain worldwide popularitythroughout the 1960s.“Sweet’s business, including a mail-orderdepartment, prospered through the 1960s,”Weber wrote. “But other small boardmakersemerged—in the late 1960s, shorterboards became a trend—and Mr. Alterseized a large part of the market.”As Sweet himself admitted, “At my peak,I was probably selling 800-900 boards ayear. Hobie did that in a month.”Sweet closed his shop in 1974, but reemergedfrom 2000 to 2007, selling “signature”reissue models, one of which is nowavailable at DaveSweetSurfboards.com,operated by his son, Greg, a singer/songwriterwho lives in Los Angeles.Born in Seattle in 1928, Sweet movedto Los Angeles with his parents, Ralph andNell, and two brothers when he was inPASSINGSjunior high. They lived in Silverlake, butrented a cottage every summer in lowerTopanga Canyon, close to a popular breakpoint where Sweet learned to surf on aborrowed redwood board that weighedclose to 120 pounds.After graduating from John MarshallHigh School, he attended USC (graduatingwith a degree in business administration)and then served briefly in the Navy beforestarting a business building balsa-coreboards in the late 1940s.Sweet moved to the Palisades in 1979with his second wife, Janey, and his son,Greg. In addition to his son, he is survivedby his brothers, Dick and Roger.Despite his pioneering role in the sport,Sweet was largely overlooked for decades; hewas finally inducted into the InternationalSurfboard Builders Hall of Fame in 2007.“He wasn’t a showman; he didn’t want tobe a surfing personality,” Matthew Warshaw,author of The History of Surfing (2011), toldthe N.Y. Times. “He was an R&D man. Hejust wanted to make a better board.”Sweet’s obscurity was reflected in an e-mail to the Palisades News from surfboardcollector Bart Tucker, who recalled thetime he and his wife visited Washington,D.C., in 1997: “While viewing the AmericanHistory Museum at the Smithsonian,we noticed a 1960s exhibit. It had Fonzie’sleather jacket, lava lamps, and smack inthe middle was an early ‘60s Dave SweetDavid SweetPhoto: Leroy Grannislongboard. It was the only one there.“Being a collector I took some photosand moved on. Six months later, at a surfingevent in Newport, I heard that Dave Sweetwas there. I found him, said hello and complimentedhim on his display at the Smithsonian.He gave me a very strange, ‘Whatdid you say?’ look. He didn’t know! One ofthe greatest museums in the world andSweet has the only surfboard on display, andgets informed by a complete stranger. Heasked a bunch of questions and was ecstatic,but still seemed in disbelief, so I told himI would send him a few pictures as proof.”—BILL BRUNSNEXT ISSUE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 22Send us your comments and suggestions tospascoe@palisadesnews.comGet Your Advertising in Place Now!Contact Jeff, (310) 573-0150 or jeffridgway@palisadesnews.comor Grace at gracehiney@palisadesnews.comTHANK-YOU TO OUR ADVERTISERS!Please patronize them, and tell themyou saw their ad in the News!Acupuncture • Massage • Organic FacialsWe would like to introduceMaria Iorillo (Full-Time Esthetician)and offer thisCelebration Introductory Special:a 60-minute Eminence Organic Facialfor $60 (reg. $85).16704 Bollinger Drive, Pacific Palisades310-454-5855 • OasisPalisades.com
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