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Vine Street, Hollywood, looking south to the Brown Derby restaurant
With that crowd starting to gather on the sidewalk, it looks like something’s a-happenin’ at the Vine Street Brown Derby. This photo looks too early for those guys out front to be paparazzi, so maybe they’re just movie fans and … Continue reading
Interior Of The Brown Derby restaurant, Vine Street, Hollywood
There’s something about the Brown Derby restaurant on Vine Street that seems to encapsulate living and working in Hollywood during the studio system era. I think this shot gives us an idea of how wonderful it would have been to … Continue reading
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Menu from Brown Derby restaurant, Vine Street, Hollywood, dated Sunday, May 30, 1948
If you’ve ever wondered (like I have) what you would have ordered if you’d had the chance to go to the Brown Derby on Vine Street in Hollywood, here’s your chance. This menu has a specific dated printed on it: … Continue reading
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Color aerial shot looking north up Vine Street, Hollywood
Aerial color photo looking north up Vine Street toward the Plaza Hotel (where Clara Bow and her husband had the It Café) and The Broadway department store. If you look REALLY closely at the bottom right hand corner, you can … Continue reading
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Vine Street Brown Derby’s Bamboo Room entrance, Vine Street, Hollywood, 1937.
Here’s a classic Hollywood photograph if every I saw one. It’s the Vine Street Brown Derby restaurant, just down from the Hollywood and Vine corner. I love the glow of the “Brown Derby Bamboo Room” sign, but here’s detail I’ve … Continue reading
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Vine Street looking north from Selma Ave to Hollywood Blvd, 1960
Here we have a view at dusk of Vine Street looking north from Selma Ave toward the Hollywood and Vine corner, in 1960. We can see the Plaza Hotel (where Clara Bow once had her “It Café”), the Broadway department … Continue reading
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Looking north on Vine Street toward Hollywood Blvd, 1954 (color)
This particularly vibrant color photo is of Vine St. looking north toward the Hollywood Blvd corner. It was taken in 1954, so the restaurant on the northwest corner would still have been the Melody Lane—it didn’t change to Hody’s until … Continue reading
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Chapman Park Hotel & Bungalows, corner of Wilshire & Alexandria, 1938
In this photo we’re at the corner of Wilshire and Alexandria in 1938, looking at the Chapman Park Hotel & Bungalows, a Garden-of-Allah-like place that stood at 3401 Wilshire Boulevard (placing it opposite the Ambassador Hotel and the original Brown … Continue reading
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Wilshire Boulevard looking east, February 10th, 1928
This shot is of Wilshire Blvd facing east toward downtown L.A. On the left side we can see the Wilshire Christian Church, then the original Brown Derby, and past that, the Gaylord Apartments. Miraculously, two out of those three buildings … Continue reading
Hollywood map on cover of luncheon menu from the Vine Street Brown Derby restaurant, 1951
I love it when my lunch menu doubles as a map to all the important places around Hollywood, including all four Brown Derby restaurants, which shouldn’t come as a surprise considering this was the lunch menu at the Vine Street … Continue reading
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Tagged Beverly Hills, Brown Derby, Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Maps, Restaurants, Wilshire Blvd
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