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It was the life any kid could only dream of, bounding across the country in an overstuffed camper from San Clemente to Pensacola to the shoreline of Venezuela, always searching for the perfect wave.
With Dorian Paskowitz at the wheel, nine kids jammed in the back and Juliette riding shotgun, the family finally parked the rig on the sand in San Onofre, opened a surf camp and spent their days riding the glassy curls, playing in the whitewash and chasing one another from lifeguard tower to lifeguard tower.
“If ‘Nomadland’ was a 2, we were at a 10 as far as sheer adventure, uncertainty, homelessness and never knowing what the next day might bring,” said Israel “Izzy” Paskowitz, the fourth-oldest child in the clan. “It was wonderful.”
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It was the life any kid could only dream of, bounding across the country in an overstuffed camper from San Clemente to Pensacola to the shoreline of Venezuela, always searching for the perfect wave.
With Dorian Paskowitz at the wheel, nine kids jammed in the back and Juliette riding shotgun, the family finally parked the rig on the sand in San Onofre, opened a surf camp and spent their days riding the glassy curls, playing in the whitewash and chasing one another from lifeguard tower to lifeguard tower.
“If ‘Nomadland’ was a 2, we were at a 10 as far as sheer adventure, uncertainty, homelessness and never knowing what the next day might bring,” said Israel “Izzy” Paskowitz, the fourth-oldest child in the clan. “It was wonderful.”
RIP: Juliette Paskowitz
Juliette (third from right) and the surfing Paskowitz clan. Photo: courtesy of the family
Dashel Pierson
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Juliette Paskowitz, wife of Dr. Dorian Paskowitz and mother to the nine children of the surfing Paskowitz clan, has passed away. She was 89.
An accomplished opera singer, Juliette met Dorian or “Doc” on Catalina Island in 1958. Soon after, she abandoned her opera career and hit the road with Doc in their campervan, surfing all along the way. In the years that followed, the 24-foot campervan would become increasingly more crowded as Doc and Juliette welcomed nine children.