Readers React: Sending off Times veteran Bob Pool

To the editor: The tribute by Steve Lopez for Bob Pool upon his retirement after 31 years at The Times is well-deserved. (“Reporter Bob Pool, retiring after 50 years, covered the quirks of a metropolis,” Oct. 29)

Those of us who lived in the Conejo Valley in the 1970s had the benefit of reading Pool’s reporting in the Thousand Oaks News-Chronicle (now the Ventura County Star). We were saddened when he was lured away to The Times, but we didn’t lose him; we just gladly shared his abilities and stories with all of Southern California.

Enjoy your retirement, Bob. We all will miss you.

Harvey Kern, Los Angeles

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To the editor: Steve Lopez is Bob Pool. He brings alive the uniqueness, the individuality, the quirkiness of the city.

He writes of a Bob Pool story, “With that little story, a giant city became a small town.” This was a moving paean to the value of newspapers and journalists who can spot a story in a pregnant mail carrier.

Thanks to Bob Pool for his 31 years of service.

Steve McGrath, San Luis Obispo

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