PCAD - Brown Derby Restaurant #2, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

1620-1628 Vine Street
Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 90028-8803

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Vine Street just south of Hollywood Boulevard;

This became the most prestigious of the four Brown Derby Restaurants that operated in the 1930s-1940s; it opened 2/14/1929; it was built for the Vine Street Holding Company and film director, Cecil B. DeMille; the owners leased ground floor space to the Brown Derby Restaurant Company; Robert H. Cobb, inventor of the Cobb Salad, was an owner of the Brown Derby in the 1930s; the Brown Derby in Hollywood was sold to Walter P. Scharfe in February 1975; Scharfe closed the restaurant 9/1980, and demolition was threatened at that time;

Demolished. This Brown Derby Restaurant had the unfortunate distinction of being the first building razed in Hollywood following the Northridge Earthquake of 01/17/1994; demolition began about a week later, on 01/24/1994;

PCAD id: 4334

Publications

Duke, Donald, "The Brown Derby", Branding Iron, 181: 5-6, 8, Fall 1990. "The Brown Derby", Branding Iron, 181: 3-6, Fall 1990. "Somborn, Herbert K., Obituary", Daily Variety, 3, col 1, 1/3/1934. "Derby Maitre feted on 20th anniversary at eatery", Daily Variety, 14, 4/15/1949. Lockwood, Charles, Guide to Hollywood and Beverly Hills, 20, 1984. Giella, Barbara, Johnson, Christy, Historic Resources Inventory, Hollywood, Los Angeles, 1978, 11/1978. Bacon, James, "Brown Derby--part of the Hollywood legend", Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, part F: 3, 2/16/1975. "Brown Derby are sold", Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, part A: 3, 2/12/1975. "How they beat the bulldozer and saved the Brown Derby", Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, section A: 3, 6, 9/22/1980. Schruers, Fred, "The way we were", Los Angeles Magazine, 122 +, 8/1999. "Landmark in Abandoned by young squatters", Los Angeles Times, B3, 7/22/1992. "Brown Derbies sold", Los Angeles Times, part I: 2, col 6, 2/12/1975. Maher, Adrian, "Broken hearts, as Brown Derby is demolished", Los Angeles Times, B2, 2/15/1994. Oliver, Myrna, "Sally Cobb; co-wrote book on Brown Derby", Los Angeles Times, B6, 9/24/1998. Gordon, Larry, "Derby demolition begins amidst protests", Los Angeles Times, Metro Sect: B1 +, 1/25/1994. Heimann, Jim, Out with the stars, 217, 1985. "Brown Derby Restaurant, Vine Street, Hollywood", Pictorial California, 3/1935. "Store, studio and restaurant building, Hollywood", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 57, col 1, 6/29/1928. "Brown Derby Vine Street, Hollywood", Westways, 12/1937.

Brown Derby Restaurant #2, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA (1928-1929)

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