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Title
Brown Derby Restaurant
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1973
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Designed in part by J.R. Davidson, the "derby" measured 28 feet in diameter and 17 1/2 feet in height; this was the only one of the four restaurant buildings that resembled a bowler hat. First it was located at 3427 Wilshire Boulevard, across the street from the Ambassador Hotel, but was later moved one block over to 3347 Wilshire Boulevard. In 1975, it was closed and sold. After the restaurant was demolished in 1980, the shell of the hat-shaped dome was restored and incorporated into the design of the Brown Derby Plaza, a strip mall at 3377 Wilshire Boulevard.
Exterior view of the first Brown Derby Restaurant, built in 1926 and generally referred to as the "Wilshire Brown Derby." A large sign reads "Continental Cuisine, open 11 am - 2 am, Steaks, Prime Rib, Sea Food, Complete dinners, Open Sundays 4-12."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00008664
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Hollywood-Restaurants-Brown Derby; A-003-449 4x5
CARL0000010109
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87416
Subject
Brown Derby Restaurant (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Restaurants--California--Los Angeles
Mimetic architecture--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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