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 ...

Supposing you were to pack a picnic for the Hollywood Bowl with exclusively ... Take the Cobb salad, invented here at the renowned Brown Derby restaurant, the flagship of several Brown Derbys ...

To young and old alike, the Brown Derby restaurants have symbolized Hollywood’s “golden days.” Now the last remaining of the five Derbys may become a martini-soaked memory. Joan Crawford ...

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 ...