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Beautiful Googie architecture in Norwalk, California, now demolished. Built in 1962 as a Unimart membership grocery store, then a Two Guys discount chain, finally the Norwalk Indoor Swap Meet until it closed in 2017.
Porst Compact Reflex SP with the Vivitar f/3.8 20mm wide angle lens on Arista EDU 100 35mm film (rebranded Czech Fomapan).
This beautiful Alpine restaurant is located at the Mountain Station of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. The cocktail bar is always open.
The cool lighting and facade for Swingers on Beverly Blvd.
An old coffee shop/diner that is connected to the Beverly Laurel Motor Hotel (built in 1963) Swingers has a newer retro googie style design & look to the restaurant and is open till 4am so it's a good spot to land for a late night snack........... you gotta love a place whose motto is "Ass, cash or grass, nobody eats for free"
Update 2015: the great neon and googie facade has been taken down and now this building is as bland as it could get
801 E. Hobson Way, Blythe, California
U.S. 60-70 Phone: 714-922-6101
* Spacious Rooms * Heated Pool * Complimentary Breakfast
* Free TV * Refrigerated * Room Phones * Kitchenettes * Coffee Lounge * Clock Radios * Recreation Room * Credit Card Accepted
Space Age Luxury ... Down to Earth Rates
A cutting of the Naugahyde Co.'s vinyl pattern named "Contemporary" in the turquoise color. Customers were offered a choice of 16 colors (4 metallic). THE iconic 1950s vinyl upholstery once found in restaurants and bars all over America. Due to the embossed pattern rolled into the material it was constructed twice as thick as any other nauga product. It wore like iron and I was still seeing this around L.A. in the 1980's in its original applications.
Swatch dims.: 12" x 12".
Click above on: ALL SIZES
More 1960's-era, "Googie" architecture, waiting to be repurposed. Hopefully, anyway.
Fort Myers, Florida.
Monday, December 24, 2012.
Christmas Eve Day.
Pann's Restaurant & Coffee Shop, located at 6710 Tijera Boulevard in Westchester, was opened in 1958 by George and Rena Panagopulos. Designed by Eldon Davis and Helen Liu Fong of Armét & Davis, the iconic building is one LA's best preserved examples of midcentury Googie architecture, featuring iconic neon signage, an angular roofline, and terrazzo floors, and neon signage. Pann’s, still family-owned (currently run by Jim Poulos), became a neighborhood institution and a touchstone for travelers thanks to its location near LAX. The menu features diner staples with Southern influences — most famously fried chicken, waffles, burgers, and hearty breakfasts. Its pop-culture status was cemented in films like Next, Bewitched and XXX: State of the Union (but contrary to popular belief, not Pulp Fiction).
I'm beginning to appreciate googie architecture more. Here's a nice example. Note, The Library Bar & Grill is next door (seen in previous photo). If you don't know what googie is, you'll have to google googie!
The same sign at night: www.flickr.com/photos/ferret111/3654907542/
Biff Burger was once a chain of hamburger restaurants located all throughout the South and East Coast. Unfortunately, the only real Biff Burger left is in St. Petersburg.
The building is taken care of, but dated on the inside, in a good way. They have 7Up on tap and Ozzie and Harriet on the wall.
Just try to find a parking space here on Friday and Saturday nights.
49th Street North north of 38th Avenue North, St. Petersburg.
Back of postcard reads:
TROPICANA MOTEL
ACROSS THE STREET FROM DISNEYLAND
Opposite The Heliport
Sleep here - walk to Disneyland
1540 S. Harbor Blvd. - Phone KEystone 5-1211
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
Few Minutes Drive to: Knott's Berry Farm, Marineland, Newport Harbor, West Coast Beaches, Hollywood. Stay here - see them all.
DELUXE ROOMS - HEATED POOLS - FREE 21" TV
Note: this postcard was postmarked 1963
This Bob's Big Boy restaurant, in the Media District of Burbank, California, was built in 1949, and is the oldest remaining Bob's in America.
It's a prime example of Googie architecture, setting the tone that many restaurants in the 1950's would follow.
Those clouds are courtesy of the incoming storm front that has bathed Southern California this week.
4211 W. Riverside Dr., Burbank CA.
San Jose's Century 21 Theatre opened in 1964, the mothership in a series of Vincent Raney-designed dome theaters that would grace the Bay Area roadside in the 1960s. The Century 21 differs from its sister dome theaters in that it was constructed almost entirely of concrete and it has a larger lobby. One of the few remaining dome theaters in the Bay Area that has not been "halved."
Located at 3161 Olsen Drive in San Jose, CA
Designed by noted modernist architect Cesar Pelli, the 1996 Celebration Town Cinema was immediately labeled by architectural pundits as an example of the Googie style of architecture. It is in fact a post-modern interpretation of the Art Moderne style of the 1930's-1950's.
Its two thin, round spires rising above the twin, rounded marquees that flank the theatre's entrance are a landmark in this planned community built by the Walt Disney Company as an adjunct to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Unfortunately the theater closed shortly after Thanksgiving in 2010 and now sits empty.
Any of y'all seen the movie "Rubber"?
The only real 'atomic', 'googie', 'mid-century modern', etc. thing about this (other than that it is, in fact, made of real atoms) is that hole with the pole going through it. That description makes me wince a bit, but I don't know what else to say. I'd better not end up with creepy hits, like my photo of Cynthia's Motel in Madera. I should probably take that damned thing down, come to think of it.
Cambrian Bowl, located at 14900 Camden Ave. in San Jose, is one of the last two mid-century bowling establishments in San Jose (folks, there used to be TEN). Cambrian Bowl opened in 1958 and while the shopping center it sits in is characterized by a traditional ranch-style architecture, Cambrian Bowl is marked by two very blue Googie BOWL signs.