The Brown Derby restaurant, Vine St, Hollywood, circa early to mid 70s
I normally focus on presenting photos of LA and Hollywood up to around the end of the 1950s, mainly because the Garden of Allah closed in summer of 1959 and that’s the focus of my research. But I have to make an exception with this circa early-to-mid-70s shot of the Vine Street Brown Derby because it shows us what that Derby would have looked like—in color, which a kind of rare—up until the time of the 1987 fire that ended its glorious 58-year run. I was surprised to see it painted a dark brown until I realized, “Well, it is the BROWN Derby…”
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In the late 1970’s I first ate at the Brown Derby Coffee Shop which was adjacent to this Brown Derby. I remember looking across the street at the Doolittle Theatre where California Suite was on the marquee, while I was dining. (I tried searching, but I can find nothing to corroborate my “marquee memory” online at the moment.) I also want to say that Carol Burnett was in it. What was great about the Coffee Shop is that it used the same kitchen as the Brown Derby.
In 1981, I got to eat in the Brown Derby proper on my birthday. I recall that one thing I ate was chicken curry. I still have the gold matchbooks I got from the restaurant. Would love to have gone there many more times.
Hey Martin, at least you got to dine at a Brown Derby, which is more than I can say. Gold matchbook, eh? Sounds appropriately fancy!