Robert Bagwell Taking Some Time Off

Bob Bagwell (pictured at the right) with former Los Angeles Times Publisher David Hiller, will celebrate sixty-one years working at the Los Angeles Times this August. This is a record length of employment at the newspaper that will most likely never be matched by anyone again.

Bob began his newspaper career at the Times in 1948 as an apprentice pressman, and earned his way to pressroom crew supervisor before deciding on a career change some twenty years ago. Bob works in edition planning now and has no plans on taking a buyout or retiring anytime soon.

Known to his friends in the pressroom as Baggy, he is an icon at the newspaper and has witnessed future shock firsthand in his sixty years of continuous service to the company.

Bob will be missed at the Times as he takes five or six weeks off for health reasons, lets wish him a speedy recovery and rapid return to the newspaper he calls home.