The “Googie” style of mid-century modern architecture got its name from Googie’s Coffee Shop, a Hollywood diner built in 1949. Architect John Lautner designed the building at the corner of Sunset and ...
For decades, bright, playful and oddly-shaped fast-food restaurants dotted the roadside along America's highways. You'd drive by Howard Johnson's with its orange roofs and then pass Pizza Hut's ...
Los Angeles has certainly changed over the decades, as all thrumming and humming megalopolises tend to do, but it has never fully lost its architectural adherence to a certain midcentury moxie. Stream ...
A woman walks outside Googies Coffee Shop and Schwab’s Pharmacy in Los Angeles. Googie architecture touched down in Los Angeles in 1949 thanks to John Lautner’s futuristic design of the long-gone ...
Mel's Drive-In in Santa Monica is one of the few Googie buildings left in the city, with an imposing neon sign, soaring roof and plate glass windows. It’s also the official terminus of Route 66, which ...
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