Googie architecture: A May 18 Travel section article on Googie architecture listed the wrong address, telephone number and hours for the Starbucks at the former site of Ships Culver City.

Googie came to reflect a very 1950s and ’60s view of what “the future” meant . ... and hard angles are all themes in Googie architecture, ... Vox Media logo.

Even the one of the first McDonald’s restaurants adapted the style to work with its logo. ... Irina Vinnitskaya. "Video: Googie Architecture, Part 2 " 22 Nov 2012. ArchDaily.

Examples of Googie architecture in Las Vegas — La Concha lobby at the Neon Museum, 770 Las Vegas Blvd. North — Flamingo Collision Center, 3024 E Fremont St.

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 ...

Alan Hess—author of 1985’s Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture, recently updated and republished as Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture—agrees.“The cultural attitude in ...

The Las Vegas of the 1950s can be said to be one of the first large scale experiments in Googie architecture. Famously the “Las Vegas” sign embodied the futuristic style.

Googie architecture exemplified this sanguine outlook. The style used unconventional shapes, eye-catching colors, and modern materials — including glass, chrome, and lots of plastic.

As he explains it, Googie was an unpretentious aesthetic meant to appeal to the average, middle-class American: ”One of the key things about Googie architecture was that it wasn’t custom ...

“A beige blob”: Historic preservationists say new paint damaged Weller’s Dry Cleaning, an icon of Googie architecture in Silver Spring on its way to being protected.

Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows and flashy signs. Anna Kodé, a reporter covering design and culture for ...

Anaheim, once a gold mine of ‘50s architecture, lost most of the Googie motels that bordered Disneyland in the 1990s, ... Ray Kroc bought them out in 1961 and wanted a new logo.