Dec 1, 2005 - Los Feliz Ledger: Front page article goes here
Nov. 27, 2005 - LA Times: Once in Fashion, The Brown Derby Became Old Hat by Ceclia Rasmussen
"In its 50-year heyday, the Brown Derby was where Hollywood hung its hat. The all-night eatery was as sublime as the top-grade, top-dollar caviar it spooned out, and as proudly low-brow as its buck-a-burger.
The first of four Brown Derbys opened on Wilshire Boulevard in 1926, across from the Ambassador Hotel. It was the only Derby shaped like a hat. During the 1920s, '30s and '40s, more Derbys opened, all serving as clubs for the Hollywood elite . . . The fourth Brown Derby is the last to remain standing, but it too is slated for the wrecking ball unless preservationists can save it. Its Brown Derby days ended around 1960; it has more recently operated as a nightclub and restaurant. "
For full text article click here: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-me-then27nov27,1,5501923.story?coll=la-commun-los_angeles_metro
Nov. 20, 2005 - USA Today: LA Culinary Icons Add a Dash of Kitsch
"... A few miles away on Los Feliz Boulevard, the last of what once were five Brown Derby cafes, watering holes for the stars since the 1920s , is facing the end. Hundreds turned out at a community meeting this month to protest plans to replace the dome with housing and retail shops.
Nearby is a reminder of another loss: The dome of the first Brown Derby, once a giant gentleman's hat, sits shorn of its brim atop a two-story mini-mall in Koreatown. A passerby would never recognize the landmark built in 1926, which once was the hippest nightspot in movieland. ..."
For text of full article click here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-20-la-kitsch_x.htm
Nov 10, 2005 - LA Weekly: Curtain Call. Can Anyone Save the Derby?
"The Save the Derby Coalition is seeing red as a marschino cherry the Woodlan Hills-based Adler Realty Investments Inc,'s proposal to demolish the Derby to make room for an 80-unit condo/retail structure. The Coalition will be one of the presenters at a November 10 town-hall-style meeting to discuss the fate of the nightclub at 4500 Los Feliz Blvd ..."
For text of the full article click here: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/51/news-fanslow.php
Oct 29, 2005 - LA Business Journal: Brown Derby's Replacement Sparks Preservation Debate.
"Showdown is shaping up over whether one of LA's former Brown Derby locations should be considered historic..."
Full article available with online subscription at http://www.labusinessjournal.com/default.asp
Aug. 15, 2005 - LAist: The Derby's Got a Lot of Living To Do.
For text of the full article click here: http://www.laist.com/archives/2005/08/15/the_derbys_got_a_lot_of_living_to_do.php
Aug 11, 2005 - LA Observed: The Derby in Peril.
"Plans to demolish The Derby on Los Feliz Boulevard and build condos have got some Los Felizians in an uproar. The fledgling Save the Derby Coalition doesn't have a website up yet, but the subject was raised at last night's meeting of the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council Planning/Zoning and Historic Preservation Committee ... "
For text of the full article click here: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2005/08/the_derby_in_pe.html
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