Brown Derby. Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, 1926-1980

Opened in 1926, 3427 Wilshire Blvd, across the street from the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel. The original, derby-shaped building was moved in 1937 to 3377 Wilshire Blvd at the corner of Alexandria Ave, about a block from its previous location. The building was sold in 1975 and replaced in 1980 by a shopping center known as the Brown Derby Plaza.



c. 1937 / tourist slide, date unknown, with Xmas decorations / 1954, source unknown / Photo by J Baylor Roberts, Nat’l Geo. / 1963 tourist slide / 1967, by Chalmers Butterfield / 1980, unknown amateur photog.