Manhattan Beach: Lives well lived, 2022
Michael McNulty, the mayor of Uncle Bill’s Every town has elements that define it. Manhattan Beach has the sun, the sand, the pier, and until last February, a boisterously bearded, and cheerful man named Michael McNulty who could be found every day for the last 50 years at Uncle Bill’s Pancake House from early afternoon till closing time at 3 p.m. McNulty passed away on February 23 from complications following a fall. He was 87. He spent his earliest years in Los Angeles and became a local resident in the early 1950s. He worked variously as a pipefitter, pool cleaner, within the aviation industry during the era spanning the NASA Apollo mission. But for the last decades of his life, McNulty mainly honed the fine art of living perfect days in Manhattan Beach. “His routine was to wake up close to noon, get to Uncle Bill’s and close the place, then he would buy some juices from the juice store [across the street], drive to the bottom, north side parking lot at the MB pier, people watch and check the waves, then drive back home and meditate till sunset,” said Jaren Barredo, who was McNulty’s housemate and caretaker the last years of his life. McNulty began going to Uncle Bill’s as a…
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