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Afterword

Al Martinez on the Mayor of 2nd Street

By Claire Noland
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Fans and loyal readers of former Times columnist Al Martinez, who for decades chronicled the lives of Angelenos who were all special in their own way, will want to read his 1981 profile of Milt Wagenheim, also called the Mayor of 2nd Street.

Wagenheim, who died Dec. 29 at 91, was a friendly jokester who operated a downtown dry-cleaning business on 2nd Street between Broadway and Hill Street, adjacent to the popular Redwood Saloon (a more recent incarnation of the Redwood has a spot on 2nd Street, but that’s another story).

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Click here to read Al Martinez’s story on Wagenheim.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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