This article is about the Los Angeles restaurant chain. For other uses, see Brown Derby (disambiguation).
Brown Derby
The second Brown Derby at 3377 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, c. 1968
Restaurant information
Established
1926; 98 years ago (1926)
Previous owner(s)
Wilson Mizner
Food type
American
Dress code
Formal
Country
United States
Brown Derby was a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles, California. The first and best known was shaped like a derby hat, an iconic image that became synonymous with the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was opened by Wilson Mizner in 1926.[1] The chain was started by Robert H. Cobb and Herbert K. Somborn (a former husband of film star Gloria Swanson) in the 1920s. The original Brown Derby restaurants had closed or had been converted to other uses by the 1980s, though a Disney-backed Brown Derby national franchising program revived the brand in the 21st century. It is often incorrectly thought that the Brown Derby was a single restaurant, and the Wilshire Boulevard and Hollywood branches are frequently confused.
There is a non-related chain of steakhouse restaurants founded in 1941 in Akron, Ohio, and franchised in 1962.[2] This chain was founded by Ted and Gus Girves, and the full name of these restaurants is "Girves Brown Derby". As of 2019[update], five of the Girves chain are still in business.
^Rubay, Donnell. "The Rogue and the Little Lady: The romance of Wilson Mizner and Anita Loos". The Bernica Herald. Archived from the original on January 5, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
^"Brown Derby Forms Franchising Firm". The Akron Beacon Journal. September 23, 1962. Retrieved August 26, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
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