By Mike Kirwan
Dee’s will be closing and many will be sad to see this happen. The replacement place at least isn’t another Starbucks. What usually happens when a place closes after a long time is that everyone gets upset. Yet if all these people would have gone to the places on a regular basis, maybe they wouldn’t close.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 16, 2003. Read the original PDF.