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Martin Stern Jr. is credited as a pioneer of Googie style architecture; his first of that style was Ship's Coffee Shop. Three Ship's Coffee Shops operated in the Los Angeles area from 1956 until the 1990s.
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Back of postcard reads:
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CAR WASHES
JUST FILL YOUR TANK FOR EACH WASH
Reg. or Ethyl - 8 gallons min.
Good any day except SAT.
THE FULLERTON CAR WASH
800 N. Harbor, Fullerton CA
For an excruciatingly painful remodel, just Google map the address above. This space-age beauty has been covered in stucco. There ought to be laws prohibiting bad taste.
Gorgeous googie neon sign for Rudy's Liquor Store, 285 Chartres Street and U.S. Route 6, in LaSalle, Illinois.
Sign for the Satellite Restaurant and Lounge, located above the single terminal of the airport in Klamath Falls, OR.
This sign is an icon from my childhood - when I was born my dad was stationed at Kingsley Field right next to the airport, and we used to go out to the base a lot even after he retired, to shop, see air shows, etc. I used to love having lunch up in the Satellite and watching planes come and go. I think this place has a lot to do with my fondness for vintage signs and airplanes.
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.
Historic Googie Car Wash at the 5 Points intersection in Whittier, CA, before the rain storm in January 2021. We had EPIC Clouds this day. PS, yes those are REAL clouds from that day, not fake Photoshoped in.
| Canon 6D | Canon 24-105 f/4 L IS USM | ISO 200 | f/11 @ 1/320 sec | Edited in Adobe Lightroom Classic |
This great bowling alley sign is located in Abilene, Kansas and is just off of I-70 on Kansas Hiwy 15.
Alma, Georgia
Constructed in the mid 1960s by the then Alma Exchange Bank. It began operation January 25, 1966. The design was a concept of a founder Mr Valene Bennett who saw the "googie architecture" at the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, NY. It was restored in 2020 by the sons of Mr Bennett, who know are Chairman and Vice Chairman of Pineland Bank.
Historic Plaque:
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Sign by California Neon Products
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Note original color scheme and the word "West" - I wonder if there were multiple planned "Eden Roc's?"
Built 1962 .... Innovative architectural designs, were often used to lure customers into grocery stores in the 1950's & 1960's. Unfortunately, many of these styles were buried under facelifts or destroyed altogether. This supermarket design, is a rare example of surviving "Googie" style, early 1960's grocery store design in Toronto.... Update .... unfortunately, this grocery store was demolished in Feb/March of 2014, glad I got this photo beforehand!
Lunar Motors - Drive into a new age!
A 1960s inspired car showroom with mid century architecture style such as Googie, space age and atomic elements.
The interior is built to be removed as shown. A mid 60's car is the showroom centrepiece along with some office desks and a seating area. Some mid century patterned walls also feature.
Cheers!
Thanks to other Flickrers, this building has been identified as an ex-Mister Donut.
15th Street (US 98) at June Avenue, Panama City.
The police station in Calipatria, CA has a tile mosaic mural and a zigzag mid-century googie styled roofline.
Also: Googie!
As seen on Boing Boing here:
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Shot on iPhone 5 and edited on the phone using Snapseed app.
Back of postcard reads:
Premiere Resort Hotel
3110 Belmar St., Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Phone LO 6-7676
- At the Ocean
- Swimming Pool
- Gift Shop
- Elevator
- Phones in each room
- Air-Conditioned
- Heated
- Hotel Rooms
- Efficiencies
- Bedroom Apts.
- Free Underground Parking
Tom Neel Color Cards, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Light leaky...
Premire Lanes, La Mirada, CA. ©Mike Vega 2016
1982 Konica Pop 36mm f4 100 asa Fomapan B/W 35mm film.
1911 West Olive Street
Burbank, California
I love that the pool has the same pinched shape as the sign. Nobody makes details like that anymore.
Googie architecture is a form of modern architecture, a subdivision of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age. Originating in Southern California during the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s, Googie-themed architecture was popular among motels, coffee houses and gas stations. The school later became widely known as part of the Mid-Century modern style, elements of which represent the populuxe aesthetic,[attribution needed] as in Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center. The term "Googie" comes from a now defunct coffee shop and cafe built in West Hollywood.
Features of Googie include upswept roofs, curvaceous, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon. Googie was also characterized by Space Age designs symbolic of motion, such as boomerangs, flying saucers, atoms and parabolas, and free-form designs such as "soft" parallelograms and an artist's palette motif. These stylistic conventions represented American society's fascination with Space Age themes and marketing emphasis on futuristic designs. As with the Art Deco style of the 1930s, Googie became less valued as time passed, and many buildings in this style have been destroyed. Some examples have been preserved, though, such as the oldest McDonald's stand that was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The La Concha Motel was a motel that opened in 1961 and closed in December 2003. It was designed by architect Paul Williams who was one of the first prominent African American architects in the United States and was also the architect who designed the first LAX theme building. It was located at 2955 Las Vegas Blvd South Winchester, Nevada and was considered one of the best-preserved examples of 1950's Googie architecture. The La Concha Motel is now restored in Las Vegas' Neon Museum
-Wikipedia
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