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Old Posted Mar 8, 2021, 3:09 AM
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Vine and Selma, looking north at dusk (1950s)
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As has been pointed out in the comments, the building on the right was the Hollywood Brown Derby, the second of four locations, which opened at 1628 Vine St. In 1929 (three years after the original Wilshire location opened). The Beverly Hills location opened in 1931, at the corner of Wilshire and Rodeo, and the Hillhurst location opened in 1940. Out of all of these, only the Wilshire location was built for the restaurant. The other three locations all took over existing structures.
There was a later Brown Derby at Hollywood and Vine, in the former Melody Lane building and one in Las Vegas that Mrs. Cobb opened herself.
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