Thursday, April 2, 2009

GOODBYE, BROWN DERBY!!

Lombard and Gable
The Entrance

On this date in 1985, The famed Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood closed after 57 years. All of the furnishings were kept, including famous Booth #5 -- where Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard.

2 comments:

Rick said...

Ahh Yet another place of days gone by I will never get to visit.

Unknown said...

The famous booth should be sent to the smithsonian! It's so sad some rich hollywood connected person couldn't take it over.