Site of the Vine Street Brown Derby
1628 Vine Street
The most famous Hollywood restaurant of its day, the Brown Derby opened Valentine's Day, 1929. Owner Robert Cobb was also the inventor of the Cobb Salad. He originated furnishing telephones at tables during mealtime. celebrities popularity was gauged by the number of phone pages they received. Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard here in booth 54. Caricatures of movie stars decorated the walls. Damaged by fire and later by earthquake, it was demolished in 1994.
Marker is on Vine Street 0.1 miles south of Hollywood Boulevard, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
