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Located at 222 West Capitol Expressway.
Original bldg permit dates to 3/28/73. Was constructed to be a Cindy's Restaurant.
It's been Jimmy's for the past 3+ decades. Family owned and operated.
The interior is 100% Googie. A real local treasure.
Back of postcard reads:
ASTRO MOTEL
323 South Main Street, Cedar City, Utah 84720
On U.S. 91
HEATED POOL
30 Units with Electric Heat and Air Conditioning, TV, Phones, Tubs and Shower Combination, Coffee, Sauna, Located in the Heart of Utah's Wonderland. Fishing, Hunting, and Skiing at Brianhead. Close to National Monuments.
A Natural Color Card Published by Eric J. Seaich Co., Salt Lake City
"Better fill up, only gas for a hundred miles in either direction..."
Petr-O-Rama is a rusty, grungy and junk-filled retro 60s-esque gas station somewhere deep on Route 66. Some of my favorite details include a vintage Coca-Cola vending machine, art deco radio and gas pump. I built the car (based on the 1960 Chevy Impala) to help further the dingy vibe... it is supposed to be broken down, hence its lack of tires and dark rusty brown color.
It was a fairly quick build I finished a while ago... I just didn't have time to photograph it! Despite my lack of posting, I have been busy as a beaver building big things, so stay tuned for those.
Gardunos has been slingin tacos and their special oven baked burrito since 1941, but you know what really attracted me here was their very cool googie sign
Back of postcard reads:
SKY WAY MOTEL
16801 W. Highway 98, Panama City, Florida
Tel Adams 4-2187
On the World's most beautiful beaches across from good restaurants. All rooms facing the Gulf. Central Air-Conditioning and Heating. Swimming Pool. Telephones and T.V. in each room.
Pub. by Edward Back, Pensacola, Florida
Inside the abandoned Googie cafe off of Interstate 15 in Yermo, California. This structure was home to a pack of feral cats, you could hear the kittens mewling in the kitchen.
Night, full moon, 90 second exposure, sodium vapor lights, LED flashlight.
Reprocessed and replaced, April 2023.
The sign that started it all... my "career" in historic preservation, that is. Formerly located at the corner of Stevens Creek Blvd. and San Tomas Expressway in San Jose. The towering spage-age lollipop, with its spiraling atoms and Googie-style lettering, was once the lure to a world of countless childhood delights. For vintage ad, see www.flickr.com/photos/14696209@N02/3629304359/in/set-7215...
Was this an accurate depiction of life back then? Stuff is pretty awful just now but who could tolerate THAT sort of muddle today?
Single-handed, cooking a Sunday roast for a family of four in that chaos...
Hollywood Legends Theater
Sunset Boulevard
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Googie architecture (also known as populuxe or doo-wop) is a form of novelty architecture and a subdivision of futurist architecture, influenced by car culture and the Space and Atomic Ages.[1] The style is related to and sometimes synonymous with the Raygun Gothic style as coined by writer William Gibson.
Originating in Southern California in the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s, the types of buildings that were most frequently designed in a Googie style were motels, coffee houses and bowling alleys. The academic vein of the school became widely-known as the Mid-Century modern movement, and some of those more notable variations reflect elements of the populuxe aesthetic, as in Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center. - wiki
Back of postcard reads:
ASTROMOTEL - Antioch
Space Age Luxury - Down to Earth Rates
515 East 18th St.
Antioch, Calif. 757-6100
One-half mile east on State 4. Newest and finest in Antioch and the Delta Area. Beautifully appointed rooms have direct dial telephones, color TV, clock radios, air conditioning and electric heating. Sauna Bath and heated swimming pool, complimentary in-room coffee.
Location: 449 South Winchester Blvd., San Jose, CA
Positioned in front of the Century dome theaters and down the street from the Winchester Mystery House, Bob’s Big Boy served up burgers and shakes from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s. The Bob’s building, with its rock pillars and convex roofline, was designed by the Los Angeles based architectural firm, Armet and Davis, and is a prime example of “Coffee Shop Modern.” Fortunately, when the folks at Flames took over from Bob, they did little to alter the building’s exterior. Today, Flames Coffee Shop on Winchester Blvd. looks much like its predecessor, although one thing you’ll notice is that the original sign’s characteristic spike has been shortened.
Image appears courtesy Armet Davis & Newlove AIA Architects - AKA "the Godfathers of Googie." For more classic buildings by Armet & Davis, see www.googieart.com
Bastien’s Steak House is the first ever Googie-style building to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building has a "folded-roof" design with 24 sides. It was built in 1959, on the site of the Bastien family's "Moon Drive-In", which opened in 1937. This sign used to be turquoise, but I think this repaint is pretty classy looking.
I've never had the chance to eat here, but from what I read in online reviews, I need to correct that next time I'm in Denver.
Promoted as “San Jose’s Newest and Finest Bowling Alley,” Futurama Bowl opened in 1961 at 5390 Stevens Creek Boulevard. Designed by the architects Powers, Daly, and DeRosa, Futurama featured 42 “automatic” lanes, a restaurant/cocktail lounge called the “Magic Carpet Room,” and a fitness center called the “Glamorama Room.” After a 30+ year run, the bowling alley was closed to be transformed into a Safeway grocery store. All that remains today is Futurama’s quintessentially Googie sign, revamped and repurposed, its towering bowling pin supplanted by a giant Safeway logo.
Central Ave. at Osborn
Phoenix, Arizona
The newest and most glamorous restaurant in Arizona, located on the famous Central Avenue, in the heart of Phoenix. Famous for oven fresh pastries, excellent food and service.
Arizona Color Card
Dexter Press
27986-B
CAPA-005050
5DMKII + 17-40mm, f/13, ISO 50, 30s Fake HDR (7 layers)
76 Gas Station (Crescent Drive) Beverly Hills, CA
Architectural icon designer William Pereira, the man behind the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco built this canopy to showcases a huge futuristic style, the big curved, sloping roof.
Though, William Pereira was unaware that his creation would be covering a gas station.
Roosevelt Junior High
SW OKC
Designed by Hudgins-Thompson-Ball
1960
Lots of concrete block and Googie-style steel beams set this school apart from other, more blandly designed learning institutions in the city.
This school replaced the old Roosevelt Junior High that was located on N. Klein St., an inner city school that was closed due to dwindling enrollment as the masses moved to the 'burbs. The old school was converted into an administration building for the OKCISD, and it's still used in that capacity today.
Hudgins-Thompson-Ball (HTB) designed a lot of schools and state buildings from the 50's onward. In fact, I've heard that after they got their foot in the door, it was difficult for other firms to get almost any kind of state-funded work without HTB also being involved.
Whatever the story is, I really like the design of this school and think that it looks as fresh and modern today as it did when it was built 50 years ago.