later housed the Derby nightclub. Although in their heyday the four Brown Derby branches were each famed Hollywood hangouts, all except the Los Feliz restaurant have been demolished or ...

In mid-20th century Southern California, the place to see and be seen was The Brown Derby restaurant. Partners Bob Cobb and Herb Somborn, one of Gloria Swanson’s five husbands, co-managed the ...

Gloria Somborn Daly, the daughter of legendary actress Gloria Swanson and restaurateur Herbert Somborn, who inherited and ran her father’s historic hat-shaped Brown Derby on Wilshire Boulevard ...

The Garden of Allah. The Cocoanut Grove. The Brown Derby and The Luau. They were the hottest places to see and be seen during the Golden Age of Hollywood, from the 1930s to the 1960s. Anyone who ...

From its 1926 opening in a hat-shaped building on Wilshire Blvd., The Brown Derby was the go-to spot for Hollywood heavyweights. The restaurant chain quickly expanded to Beverly Hills, Los Feliz ...