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I was taken to dinner at the old Perino's on Wilshire by friends in 1971 - very grand. Never was in Romanoff's, although I wish I had been. Ditto, the Brown Derby and Chasen's.
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Brown Derby...Coffee Shops
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This postcard reminded me that photos of the Brown Derby often do not show what is to the left of the entrance to the Brown Derby. In fact, the book I have about the Brown Derby doesn't even mention that there were coffee shops. This photo taken in 1938 shows the Eddie Cantor Gift Shop located next to the Hollywood Brown Derby. http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...ne-st-1938.jpg MartinTurnbull/photoblog Sometime after that photo the BROWN DERBY HOLLYWOOD SHOP opened there and they sold liquor and the like. (It seems to me I've seen photos of Brown Derby Beer cans.) I found some small postcard images showing this, but no good photograph this morning/afternoon, so far. The postcard above hints at this store though. Sometime later (late 40's early 50's?) this location became The Brown Derby Coffee Shop. 1950's: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/70683082.jpg Panoramio Postcard: http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/dekeuk/y1965a.JPG Ebay I did eat there in the late 70's. The food was good, I recall, but I'm not exactly sure what I had. It seems to me it was either soup and a sandwhich or chili. I recall that across the street, at the Huntington Hartford Theatre, "California Suite" was being staged. I also ate in the restaurant on my birthday in 1981. I had Chicken Curry. (?) I still have the gold and brown matches somewhere. I was trying to find interior photos of the Coffee Shop, but no luck so far. I did find this interesting item: In 1950, a deck of Brown Derby playing cards was produced (by the restaurant) with the proceeds going to benefit the City of Hope Medical Center. All images and info below is from this link, which is a site devoted to all kinds of card decks: http://www.dxpo-playingcards.com/xpo...deck-08-12.htm Here's the back-design of the deck: http://www.dxpo-playingcards.com/xpo...12-08-back.jpg The box that contained the card deck: http://www.dxpo-playingcards.com/xpo.../12-08-box.jpg The site says: "The Aces show the 4 Brown Derby restaurants of Los Angeles." They do show three of them, but the 4th one is not the original Wilshire site which was still there in 1950, but rather one I've never heard of before: "The Brown Derby Coffee Shop, Crenshaw Center." http://i.ebayimg.com/t/The-Brown-Der...7E%7E60_35.JPG You can see all 52 cards, plus two jokers by visiting the link. The Aces show the Restaurants. The Kings and Jokers show the reason for the cards, the City of Hope facilities. The number cards, Queens and Jacks show some of the famous caricatures displayed on the walls of the Hollywood Brown Derby, like "Queen of Clubs" Liberace...! It would be interesting to know, of the 40 caricatures on the cards, how those were chosen from the hundreds in the restaurant. *** Here's a post from E_R showing a twilight neon noirly lit view of Vine Street, where you can see the Brown Derby Coffee Shop. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5842 |
Brown Derby...Car Cafe
And a search tells me that this photo from the Loz Feliz Brown Derby hadn't been posted previously:
(1941) http://www.hollywoodhistoricphotos.c...afe%201941.jpg Hollywood Historic Photos CAPTION: Originally Willard's Chicken Inn Restaurant which opened in 1929. The Los Feliz Derby was located at 4500 Los Feliz Blvd. (Opened in 1940.) |
"The orginal menu owner was having dinner at the Hollywood Brown Derby in 1951 and was able to get the menu autographed by George Burns and Edgar Bergen... "
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http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8029/uljv.jpg More on the corner of Los Feliz and Hillhurst... http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1786 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1787 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1788 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13587 |
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The workingman's bubbly
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Brown Derby was the store brand for Safeway stores starting about 1937. Bottling beer had begun on a wide scale in about 1910, and in early 1936 canning beer began, adding a new way to package for home use. Cans and bottles were easy to carry and could be sold individually as well as by the case (or the six pack starting in the late '30s). More groceries then began to add packaged beer to their shelves and so the distributing companies that supplied grocers began carrying it as well. --rustycans.com http://imageshack.com/a/img38/5061/go41.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img833/374/nqhg.jpgboth images macmedadestruction.com In the 1930s the West Coast Grocery company in California supplied Safeway stores as well as another chain called MacMarr. They contracted with the tiny Humboldt Brewing Company in Eureka, California to make a new store brand called "Brown Derby." The West Coast Grocery Company probably hoped the famous Brown Derby name would strike a chord with consumers. In 1933 the brewery started bottling the beer with a green and brown label and the hat and cane logo. In 1935 they started canning the beer. However, the restaurant's owners sued for copyright infringement. The beer could still be produced, but only with a redesigned label. So in 1936 the beer was produced in a silver can. (The original brown and green cans are now insanely rare.) Humboldt Brewing apparently could not keep up with demand, however, and so in 1938 West Coast contracted with other breweries in the region to produce their beer in cans and bottles with the same label (see list below). Humboldt was closed and its equipment was sold in 1940. --rustycans.com http://imageshack.com/a/img823/2320/rgih.jpgmacmedadestruction.com http://imageshack.com/a/img440/9449/w4mx.jpgetsy.com http://imageshack.com/a/img547/1695/x1i2.jpgetsy.com The other breweries continued to make the beer and eventually it became exclusively Safeway's brand. The can was redesigned after World War II and in the mid 1950s it was expanded beyond the west coast and sold in Safeway stores around the country. At that time the can was again redesigned. For a time there was even a Brown Derby Light Beer. In 1988 Safeway sold many of its stores to Vons and the new owners decided not to keep the brand. Brown Derby was still sold in Safeway stores in the west, where the brand had been born. Some Brown Derby cans are very common, some are hard to find, and a few are rare. The rarest ones are probably the original brown and green cans mentioned above, and the 1940s quart produced by the Salem Brewing Association. --rustycans.com Breweries that canned Brown Derby throughout the years: Atlantic, Spokane, WA Atlas, Chicago Best, Chicago Century, Norfolk, VA Columbia, Tacoma, WA Eastern Brewing, Hammonton, NJ Empire, Chicago Grace Bros LTD. Los Angeles Grace Brothers, Santa Rosa Humboldt Eureka, CA K.C. Best, Spokane Los Angeles Brewing, Los Angeles Maier, Los Angeles Rainier, San Francisco Salem Brewing Assn., Salem, OR Silver Spring, Tacoma, WA United States, Chicago |
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Discovered an interesting compilation of buildings designed by Architect Arthur Burnette Benton, the above included. http://www.chandlerpedia.org/Exhibit...Burnett_Benton More about Benton and Echo Park: http://historicechopark.org/id106.html Benton is mentioned in GW's Berkeley SQ Blog: http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles....ner-house.html A small sampling of Benton's LA handiwork: Benton designed Westlake Bandshell http://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...band_shell.jpghttp://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...band_shell.jpg 1908 YWCA Building - downtown LA http://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...%25252C_CA.jpghttp://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...%25252C_CA.jpg http://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...5252C_CA_2.gifhttp://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...5252C_CA_2.gif Harvard Boy's School - 1900 http://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...os_Angeles.jpghttp://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...os_Angeles.jpg http://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...rvard-Hall.jpghttp://www.chandlerpedia.org/@api/de...rvard-Hall.jpg |
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This building was supposedly also the "Arnold's Diner" in 70's TV-show "Happy Days," but only for the establishing shot. They just put the "Arnold's" neon sign up and parked 50's cars in front of it. I've been visiting the building since mid-90's and just between that time and today it's been remodeled many, many times. My source is an old magazine article (LA Weekly, maybe) and my ex-girlfriend who worked at the Paramount Pictures. |
corner of 81st and Vermont
http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps46cdff03.png
http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...psc8b75e37.jpg http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps406121b1.jpg http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps78c723f8.jpg http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...psde94c8f4.jpg With the great success of IM Hattem's Grand Central Market stalls and his supermarket, he broke ground for a second market and a shopping center at the corner of 81st Street and Vermont Avenue. Opening in 1931, Hattem's Shopping Center was actually two buildings that shared a common parking lot. The first building housed the market itself, while the second was rented to various tenants, including a dress shop, cigar shop, and florist. Hattem's second market had stunning interiors and luxurious offices in its tower. During the construction, IM invited city officials including Mayor of Los Angeles John C. Porter, to sign their names in the wet cement at the entrance, mimicking the brainstorm of Hollywood theater mogul (and fellow Jewish Angeleno) Sid Grauman. In order to pursue a career in real estate, IM sold both of his grocery stores in 1936 to Allen & Huck, who ran a small grocery chain. The first market was converted into a BBQ restaurant and bowling alley until it was demolished to make room for Security Pacific National Bank. The second building is still standing today at the corner of 81st and Vermont. It was abandoned for many years, but recently was fully restored by the Church of Scientology. On November 5, 2011 A 16mm film created during the grand opening, which coincided with Mayor Porter's birthday, was used to produce a theatrical commercial that played the local movie houses of the city. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n072K3eBkvc |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K...2520PM.bmp.jpg Mayor John C. Porter (at left) with a birthday cake presented to him at the opening by I. M. Hattem (next to the man in the hat). Mayor Porter pronounces the city's name in the video as it was once commonly heard... "Los Ang-liss"... Many more Hattem's pics here in Vintage NLA posts: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2948 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3521 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3522 |
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Sorry, I don't remember where this photo came from...anyway, I stumbled across this postcard yesterday, notice the "Spotlite" signage at far left. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3410/...042fe102f0.jpg |
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We've probably seen this similar 1953 view here before--it's all over the web--but there's the Spotlight near center-- http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8272/xplt.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B...2520PM.bmp.jpg Vintage LA |
Here's one for Lorendoc and 3940dxer that I found last night while looking for restaurant photos. It claims to be Lookout Mountain in 1916. I did a pretty thorough search of NLA earlier and didn't find this picture in any of the previous Lookout Mountain posts.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...outMtn1916.jpg www.hollywoodhistoricphotos.com |
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Likely duplication, but maybe not. :shrug: 1911-14 (Per source) http://collections.theautry.org/MWEB.../A_184_334.jpghttp://collections.theautry.org/MWEB.../A_184_334.jpg 1911-14 (Per source) http://collections.theautry.org/MWEB.../A_184_332.jpghttp://collections.theautry.org/MWEB.../A_184_332.jpg Related: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17063 1916 http://collections.theautry.org/MWEB...ll/P_13788.jpghttp://collections.theautry.org/MWEB...ll/P_13788.jpg Related: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=6558 Entrance to Laurel Canyon (?) 1911-14 per source (Southern side(?)) http://collections.theautry.org/MWEB.../A_184_331.jpghttp://collections.theautry.org/MWEB.../A_184_331.jpg 1911-14 per source http://collections.theautry.org/MWEB.../A_184_330.jpghttp://collections.theautry.org/MWEB.../A_184_330.jpg |
A little more Hattem's...
Looks like I. M. had a stall at Grand Central Market: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W.../hattemgcm.jpgLAT July 26, 1927 A blip: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-D...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Nov 18, 1929 Plans for the Vermont and 81st store: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-I...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT March 30, 1930 Has anyone ever heard of the Vermont Avenue Knoll neighborhood designation before? And later, space at the Town & Country market: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-z...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Nov 28,1948 Walter R. Hagedohm, architect of the Vermont store, also designed the Balboa Inn in Newport Beach: http://jpg1.lapl.org/00079/00079518.jpgLAPL LAT |
4427 Sunset Blvd. Silverlake, circa 1985
http://imageshack.us/a/img818/7203/r79z.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=82497 -almost 30 years later! http://imageshack.us/a/img401/5357/d0eg.jpg GSV Like a time warp. __ |
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