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Vintage 50's "Diner on Main" by famed Googie-style architects Armet & Davis, in L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley.
The Algemac's site is now the Glendale City Lights affordable housing apartments.
Parts of the restaurant exterior was preserved after closing in 2006.
The Algemac opened in 1939 and was remodeled in the Google style in 1959 by architect Ralph Vaughn.
3673 San Fernando Road, Glendale.
Abandoned Googie cafe off of Interstate 15 in Yermo, California.
Night, full moon, 90 second exposure, sodium vapor lights. Ambient light only.
Reprocessed and replaced, April 2023.
Donald's Servateria has been in business in Pratt, Kansas, since approximately 1952. Recently, the restaurant sold to Jim and Sue Byers, who tell me they bought it to keep it from going out of business. I applauded their decision by having breakfast and lunch there. They tell me they may change the name of the business, and therefore, modify the sign. I sincerely hope they leave this classic the way it is.
The sign is a nice example of "googie" - the name given to a style of architecture and signage popular in the 1950's and 60's. The name comes from the now-defunct Googie diner in Los Angeles, where this futuristic style once predominated.
One of the characteristics of googie was an optimistic embracing of the atomic age; this is evident in the atom-like neon pieces atop the sign. The sparkle-like shape seen next to "servateria" on the sign was also a common motif. The differently shaped letters, their arrangements and their colors also contribute to the retro look of this sign.
I didn't go inside, as I had just eaten about an hour previously.
This one made me gasp when I saw it.
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This Googie icon opened its first location in 1949. There are still 17 locations open in Southern California.
The first Norm's restaurant was designed by the architectural firm of Armet & Davis (Louis Armet & Eldon Davis), who are referred to as the "Frank Lloyd Wrights of the 1950's coffee house." They also were pioneers of the entire Googie architecture movement.
11001 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles CA.
Bob's Big Boy may be interested in rebuilding Johnie's.
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It's a GAS! is a brand new coffe-table book featuring the coolest Gas Station all around.
Among the others my brick-built Esso Gas Station has been included. And I'm honored about that.
The book is edited by Gestalten, the international publishing house based in Berlin. With a preface written by Jay Leno head of Jay Leno's Garage.
If you're looking for somethng really inspirational don't miss it, it's a treat.
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Route 66, Grants, NM. All that remains of what was surely a great place, back in the Joe McCarthy era.
Amarillo, TX, Route 66. Looks like he tried to give himself a Beatle haircut. I love the Western-meets-Googie/Space Age design.
This sign does twirl around, although intermittently. The breeze was helping it along also. Lucky for me, it stopped for a minute so I could take it's picture. This place has been here a long time. I never knew burgers, malts and shakes honked their horns. . .beep beep beep!!!
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Googie architecture originated in Southern California. It is inspired by 1900's vision of what future architecture would look like. Googie architecture was the new, and the booming Anaheim, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas opened new opportunities for developers and architects alike to build cities inspired by UFO-shapes. However, much of the googie architecture are already replaced or demolished.
Googie-style Union-76 Gas Station at Crescent Drive and Little Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Designers William L. Pereira and Associates (Gin Wong), 1965.
Scenes from the Westlake District of Daly City, California. One of America's first master-planned postwar suburbs, Westlake was the "inspiration" for Malvina Reynolds' song "Little Boxes," which became a hit for folkie Pete Seeger in 1964.
Read more about Westlake at the blog: "America's Most Perfect Ticky-Tacky Suburb."
Moriarty, NM, with a mean thunderstorm approaching. Another neon restored with NM grant money.
For a video showing the restoration of this, as well as other New Mexico Route 66 neon signs, see this link.
The distance from the camera belies the fact that these are huge units. Each arm is almost eight feet long. The rotosphere not only rotates on the pole, but each half of the ball rotates in opposing directions, creating a wonderful effect in the dark night sky.
The Frandor shopping center was built in the mid-fifties between Lansing and East Lansing, Michigan. It was a large and bustling retail center with a long L-shaped parade of stores and several freestanding operations. At various times there were two grocery stores (Wrigley's and Kroger), a large Sears, a 3-story bank, a beloved little independent cinema, a tiki bar (the Boom-Boom Room), an army surplus store, a hobby shop, two dimestores (Kresge's and Woolworth's), a drugstore, many clothing and shoe stores, and much, much more. Growing up in East Lansing, I knew the place well. Like many shopping centers, it took a hit when the malls arrived. During the 80s and 90s, Frandor went into a slow decline. In the late 90s, the place was transformed. Almost every store there now is new. Some outbuildings were leveled, and new ones added. The layout was altered, and the facades were all changed to coordinate. Saddest of all, this beauful old sign was cast off. During the time Frandor was being remade, I wrote to the owners imploring them to save the sign. I also wrote to a columnist at the Lansing paper asking him to write about the issue. He did -- in dismissive tones. Americans have a fetish for preserving old cars (and I'm glad). But we have a blind spot when it comes to historic signs and buildings. The new Frandor sign is an ugly piece of generic crap. But it's new (good), and the old one was, well, old (bad). Obviously, I have sentimental attachment to this sign, so I miss it. But signs like this all over the country are disappearing because so few people recognize their beauty and their significance.
Johnie's is 1950s Googie coffee shop architecture at its finest! Love the typeface of the vintage signs and the design of Johnie's coffee shop/diner in Los Angeles at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, at 6101 Wilshire Blvd.
Opened in 1956 and closed since 2000 . . . but still standing . . . with no future plans for use. In late 2013, the City of Los Angeles designated the building, designed by architectural firm Armet & Davis, a historic cultural landmark. (The building was used in "The Big Lebowski," if you're familiar with that movie.)
If you are a fan of architecture that was influenced by car culture, the space age and the atomic age then you are probably familiar with the term Googie. Googie architecture originated in Southern California and was popular among motels, gas stations and restaurants. Features of Googie include upswept roofs, curvilinear, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon. This poster celebrates Googie style. Grab a milk shake and burger and dive into all the fun futuristic details of the Comet Cafe!
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Neptune Submarine Sandwiches, 3301 North Classen Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This early 1960s building was originally the home to Quickâs Hamburgers. It originally had no dining room, and sold 15-cent hamburgers from a walk-up window. The lobby and dining area were added about 1974, when the restaurant was converted into a Neptune Submarine Sandwiches shop. The Neptune brand was founded in the early 1970s by an Oklahoma man named Ron Taylor, who sold franchises for the submarine restaurant concept across the Oklahoma City metro area. At its height, the chain had 17 restaurants stretching from Norman to Enid, Oklahoma. But the chain went bankrupt in the mid 1980s, and this is the only surviving restaurant.