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The end has come. After some 35 years of repairing Santa Monicans’ shoes, jackets and anything leather, and telling long wonderful stories in his Michoacán accent as thick as his gray hair, Ygnacio Alejandro Benevides Gaona (there: I finally got it right), el hefe of Alex’s Shoe Repair at 1921 Main St., is throwing in […]
