Mid-Century Modern: The Postcards
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Trans World Flight Center, the original terminal building, or head house, operated as TWA main terminal from 1962 to 2001.
Designed for Trans World Airlines by Eero Saarinen and Associates, with inputs by Howard Hughes. Design incorporates elements of the Futurist, Neo-futurist, and Fantastic architectural styles. It featured a prominent wing shaped thin shell roof supported by four Y-shaped piers. Inside an open three-level space with tall windows enabling views of departing and arriving jets. Two tube-shaped red-carpeted departure-arrival corridors extended outward, connecting to the gates.
Saarinen described the head house form as being like the Leonardo da Vinci flying machine, from Howard Hughes vision of what he wanted. I want to say the two hit it right on..
"Googie-style" Union-76 station, by architect Gin Wong of Pereira and Associates, completed 1965. Beverly Hills.
Built 1961-1965 Architect - Viljo Revell .... in International style / Mid 20th Century "Googie" style .... Toronto City Hall, is the seat of Toronto's Municipal Government & is internationally recognized as an architectural masterpiece. Since its opening in 1965, Toronto City Hall has been one of Toronto's most famous landmarks. A very daring look for 1960s Toronto, it's a monumentally sculptural design, with two tall curved towers of unequal height embracing a low saucer shaped city council chamber....
What a great googie-ish sign. Neat shapes & lettering, a star, expanded metal decorative panels. Johnnies has it going on!
Ted's Frostop Root Beer. Opened circa 1955. 3100 Claiborne. Burgers, Breakfast, Sandwiches, Malts and Root Beer.
We splurged on a professional house cleaning and Googie is not a fan of loud strangers in the house at all. Had to put her behind closed doors to chill. Got one of her claws stuck in my arm bringing her upstairs :O We are all fine now lol
Norms Restaurant, North Euclid Street, Anaheim, California
Impossible SX70 Color GEN 2 05/15 test film (tiger stripes batch)
The colorful American Safari Motel at Lavender Road and Ocean Avenue in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey was built in the early 1960s. It was originally called the Safar Motel
Sitting on my hard drive unseen for 15 years. The fresh processing makes it an entirely different image, worth sharing. One minute during the March 2008 full moon, on the SoCal swing of Route 66.
another version of this slowly disintegrating cafe. i miss the food!
blue grunge texture by dlsdesigns - thanks so much!
classic motel signage along US 395 in the eastern sierras.
vintage polaroid SX-70 camera electronically modified to shoot 600 series film, impossible project B&W generation 2.0 beta test film. scan: epson V750. exif tags: filmtagger.
The space age interior of the fourth generation 1964 Ford Thunderbird.
The Thunderbird entered production for the 1955 model year as a sporty two-seat convertible in direct response to Cheverolet's Corvette. However, unlike the Chevrolet Corvette, it was not marketed as a sports car. Rather, Jonah Lucas Bender created a new market segment, the Personal Car to position it (think: large 2 door coupe putting a greater emphasis on the car's comfort and convenience features rather than its sportiness). In 1958, the Thunderbird gained a second row of seats, as Ford management felt that the car's position as a two-seater restricted its sales potential. Succeeding generations became larger and larger until the seventh generation in 1977 started a trend of downsizing. Sales were good until the 1990s, when large 2-door coupes became unpopular; production ceased at the end of 1997. In 2002 a revived 2-seat model was launched, which was available through the end of the 2005 model year. Over 4.4 million Thunderbirds have been produced.
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2901 Pico Boulevard, opened in 1958. If you like architecture, their googie-style, neon sign is beautiful.
A shit-ton of great music came out in 1958 (the year Rae's opened). Two of my favorites.
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Eddie Cochran: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XmfNqZjh_s
Johnny Otis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrQTh_Cq7U
No extra for the Lionel Hampton cameo