Tag Archives: Restaurants
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Brown Derby, Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Movie Stars, Restaurants
2 Comments
Interior shot of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel, Wilshire Blvd
Of all the interior shots I’ve seen of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel, I’ve never seen (or at least noticed) this section seated under a striped canopy. Notice the exotic light fixtures hanging from above – I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Ambassador Hotel, Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Hotels, Los Angeles, Nightclubs, Restaurants, Wilshire Blvd
Leave a comment
Clifton’s Pacific Seas Cafeteria, 618 South Olive Street, downtown Los Angeles, 1939
Clifton’s was a chain of cafeterias that started in downtown Los Angeles in the early 1930s. The country was at the height of the depression and, unwilling to turn away a guest just because they couldn’t pay, Clifton’s instituted a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Color photo, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Restaurants
Leave a comment
Advertisement for Sardi’s restaurant on Hollywood Blvd, circa mid-1930s
Sardi’s was a chic restaurant at 6315 Hollywood Boulevard, near Vine Street. It opened in 1932 by the Montmartre’s Eddie Bandstatter, and was destroyed in a fire on November 2nd, 1936, so I’m guessing this ad appeared circa mid-1930s. For … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood Blvd, Restaurants
Leave a comment
May Company department store on Wilshire, looking south, 1940
There are lots of photos of the May Company department store on Wilshire Blvd floating around, but this is the first I’ve seen of the view from the May Company looking south across Wilshire. This was taken in 1940, the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Aerial photographs, Restaurants, Stores and Shopping, Wilshire Blvd
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Aerial photographs, Brown Derby, Color photo, Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Hotels, Restaurants, Stores and Shopping
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Brown Derby, Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Night photo, Restaurants
2 Comments
Capitol Records and Coffee Dan’s at 1511 Vine St., Hollywood, circa late 1940s
It’s fairly rare to find such a clean and colorful photo of Hollywood in the 1940s, so this one is a gem in my book. We can see one of the Coffee Dan’s cafes at 1511 Vine Street (which would … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Hollywood, Restaurants, Stores and Shopping, Sunset Blvd
Leave a comment
Ollie Hammond’s Steakhouse, 3683 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
3683 WILSHIRE BLVD … 141 N. LA CIENEGA BLVD … TOWN & COUNTRY THIRD & FAIRFAX Placemat:
Gotham Delicatessen at 7050 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood
This is the Gotham Delicatessen which opened in 1923 at 7050 Hollywood Blvd just down from Grauman’s, and the Roosevelt Hotel. It became a fixture on Hollywood’s restaurant scene for a long while. I don’t know when it closed but … Continue reading