Hollywood Then and Now - April 2021

Thanks to TV shows like "I Love Lucy," one of my faraway and youthful perceptions of Hollywood was that every restaurant out here was the Brown Derby.   Indeed, there were several of them all over town.   

I missed every single one of them.   The last closed in 1985.   Oh, if I had only...

So here's the Brown Derby that was nestled in Beverly Hills.

I bet Clark Gable is inside having a cocktail just as this vintage photo was taken.

And that location today?

Quite the difference.  And the downgrade.

Dinner last night:  Just some Chinese food in the NY apartment after a long travel day.