C.C. Brown's has Hollywood meltdown.THE story of C.C. Brown's ice cream parlor Ice cream parlors are places that sell ice cream and frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is normally sold in two varieties in these stores: soft-serve ice cream (normally with just chocolate, vanilla, and "twist", a mix of the two), and hard-packed, which has an assortment of appears to be coming to an end--again. Sundae Creations Inc., doing business as C.C. Brown's of Hollywood, closed its Sunset and Vine store and has begun liquidation under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy code Bankruptcy Code may refer to:
The closing of the ice cream parlor, the sole retail franchise of the brand famous for the innovation of hot fudge Hot Fudge, a.k.a. The Hot Fudge Show, was an American children's television series that aired in syndication from 1976 to 1980. The series was produced in Detroit at WXYZ-TV. , was unrelated to the operations of Calabasas-based C.C. Brown's Inc., company officials said. Attorneys for the parlor did not return calls. "One thing we try to accomplish in our retail properties is to give morn-and-pop operations and first-time people the opportunity to open and operate a restaurant," said Larry Bond Larry Bond (1952 - ) is the designer of the Harpoon and Command at Sea gaming systems and several supplements for the games. He is an accomplished author with numerous novels to his credit, including Dangerous Ground, Day of Wrath, The Enemy Within, , chairman at Santa Monica-based Bond Cos., developer of the Sunset + Vine Sunset + Vine are an independent production company based in the UK which specialises in sports programmes. Some programmes produced by the company include MLB on Five, Nascar on five, and several other American sports. mixed-use project. "Sometimes in doing so, people who are first-time operators don't have the necessary business experience to survive." Bond added that there were "certain non-business factors" that contributed to the store's closure, but declined to elaborate. The closure marks another end to a storied Hollywood name. C.C. Brown's was founded in 1906 in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or by Clarence Clifton Brown and operated by his son Cliff from 1924 to 1963. Cliff Brown moved the business to Hollywood Boulevard in 1929, where it became a regular spot for Hollywood hopefuls. Bob Hope once worked there and Marion Brando and Joan Crawford were among the stars spotted there enjoying hot fudge sundaes. The store was sold to Carnation carnation: see pink. carnation Herbaceous plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean, widely cultivated for its fringe-petaled, often spicy-smelling flowers. dairy chemist John Schumacher in 1963 and closed in 1996, two years after his death. The company, still operated by the Schumacher family, sells bottled ice cream sauces via mail order, the Internet and specialty stores. The Hollywood retail operation was one of two attempts to recreate a sense of old Hollywood at the project. A revived Sehwab's restaurant, complete with its famous neon logo, is also a part of the complex. Staff reporter Rebecca Flass can be reached at (323)549-5225, ext. 230, or at rflass@labusinessjournal.com. |
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