It looks like traveling up Main Street, Los Angeles in the early 1880s was a piece of cake. The street was wide with lots of room for everybody’s horses and carriages on their way to perhaps make a deposit at the Farmers and Merchants Bank or visit friends who have just checked into the Cosmopolitan Hotel. One store that caught my eye is on the right: Bright’s Cheap Store. Is that the 1880s equivalent of the 99 Cent Store?