Googie architecture is considered to be an L.A.-born and bred architectural style that first rose to prominence during the economic boom years after World War II, from roughly the mid-1940’s to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Googie. Iconic or ...

That cowboy hat is an example of the architectural style known as Googie (pronounced ghoo-ghee, with two hard G’s), which was popular from the 1940s to the 1970s.

What’s known as “Googie architecture,” a type of building design that’s inspired by other spacey inanimate objects like jets and cars from the future, only the architecture type was ...

The term Googie architecture — pronounced GOO-gee with hard G’s — is probably foreign to you, but you are almost certainly ...