Los Angeles is a design and architecture nerd’s sun-drenched paradise ... architectural styles is also one of its most unusual: Googie.

Mel’s Drive-in Restaurant in Santa Monica features retro futuristic architecture known as Googie. From inside the diner, which started as Penguin Coffee Shop in the 1950s, KCRW talks with Michael ...

new video loaded: Googie, a Futuristic Style of Architecture, Is Endangered Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows ...

T he term Googie architecture — pronounced GOO-gee with hard G’s — is probably foreign to you, but you are almost certainly ...

Much ado about Googie architecture has prompted some preservationists to press for preserving a former Dallas coffee shop that represents the iconic Googie style. Googie? Yep.

For everyday people, though, Googie was a way to experience cutting-edge architecture. “More than any of the custom homes that Modernism is famous for, Googie allowed the average person to ...

which is named after this diner called Googie's. Googie architecture was very optimistic, very exuberant. It was about abstraction and signage and brightness. What I really like about this diner ...

For six decades, Weller’s Dry Cleaning in downtown Silver Spring was hard to miss, with its angled roof and flashy red and pink porcelain enamel panels designed to grab the attention of passing ...

“Googie” is a word one doesn’t hear a great deal and sounds a little like a noise a toddler would make — but in the architecture world, it’s a futuristic blast from the past. Exterior ...

Mel’s Drive-in Restaurant in Santa Monica features retro futuristic architecture known as Googie. From inside the diner, which started as Penguin Coffee Shop in the 1950s, KCRW talks with Michael ...