To the editor: When a 99 Cents Only store took over the location of the wonderfully chaotic Bargain Circus on La Brea Avenue in 1999, I was bummed. Where else was I going to come across stuff like remaindered Crosse & Blackwell individual plum puddings for 50 cents? ("99 Cents Only was an L.A. icon. Inside the fall of the popular chain," April 10) The burgeoning chain of 99 Cents Only stores seemed blandly corporate by comparison. Eventually, though, its advertising's humor and the stores'... Read this story
