This saddened me a bit, but hey, I figured Chasen’s would always be there, so I’d catch up one day. I never got the chance. The restaurant’s fortunes were declining. Young Hollywood had ...

If there were a Mount Rushmore of long-gone restaurants of Hollywood’s golden age, Trader Vic’s would undoubtedly be on it, with Chasen’s, Ciro’s, The Brown Derby, and Cocoanut Grove.