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Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
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Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
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."
Located in El Monte, CA, this is a rare example of a drive-thru dairy dating from 1961, built by Theodore Masterson. Fabulous example of Googie architecture.
Among hundreds of classic neon signs lost to tacky condo development in the Wildwoods of NJ, the Dolphin is one of the best remembered. The dolphin minus the rest of the sign did manage to flip over to the Wildwood Historical Society.
July 2010. This Futuro house is sitting over at the Pink Elephant Antique Mall in Livingston, IL. It's in pretty rough shape; missing several windows, all the interior finish
and the stairs.
Strobist info: One SB900 flash 1/1 power with red gel inside saucer. Triggered with Yongnuo RF602 wireless remote. f/4.5 1/250th, ISO 400.
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
Back of postcard reads:
ANAHEIM CONVENTION CENTER
This beautiful 15 million dollar center consists of an arena, exhibit hall and meeting rooms. Located across from Disneyland on a 40 acre site with 375,000 square feet of space.
Address: 800 West Katella, Anaheim, CA.
Opened in 1967.
Architects: Adrian Wilson & Associates.
Apologies for the crappy scan. My scanner does not like this postcard. Incredibly cool building nonetheless.
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
This one is especially for Lance & Cromwell who posted a few photos taken at this intersection in 1961. The corner of Fresno Street and Belmont Avenue in Fresno as it appears today. This odd looking round pink and yellow googie style building caught my eye. Their menu is odd, too: donuts, ice cream, hamburgers and Chinese food.
This was the main branch of Commercial Federal Savings & Loan for years, until the city grew westward. Comm Fed followed that growth and built a new business parks in the middle of it. Bank of the West bought the institution sometime in the early 2000’s or so. It’s been vacant for nearly a decade, if not more.
1958 grand union supermarket
the new jersey grocery chains second and most memorable store in toronto. the parabolic roof courtesy of bregman and hamann architects.
i'm of an age where i remember grand union as grand union. the chain departed canada and this store has sold groceries under several nameplates.
a rare example of googie architecture remaining in ontario. it represents an age in which represents the age it was founded, the space age, the atomic age.
nikon F3/T, 28-50mm f/3.5 AIS. efke 100 with nikon R60 red filter. lab: photoimpact west, santa monica, ca.
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
Cruise night at Johnie's (now Big Boy) Broiler, a Googie coffee shop and drive-in restaurant in Downey. Built in 1958, demolished 2007, rebuilt 2009. 7447 Firestone Boulevard, Downey California.
From BobsBigBoyBroiler.com:
Downey's former Harvey's/Johnie's Broiler has made a major comeback from an utterly illegal Sunday afternoon demolition in 2007. Now a Bob's Big Boy, the restaurant has won the LA Conservancy's President's Award for preservation.
Porst Compact Reflex SP with the Vivitar 20mm f3.8 wide-angle lens on expired Kodak T-Max 3200 film.
Built between 1959 and 1962, this Modern Futurist and Googie building was designed by Eero Saarinen and Associates for Trans World Airlines to serve as a Flight Center, or Terminal headhouse, for their passenger services at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The building is an example of thin shell construction, with a parabolic and curved sculptural concrete roof and concrete columns, with many surfaces of the building's structure and exterior being tapered or curved. The building also appears to take inspiration from natural forms, with the roofs appearing like the wings of a bird or bat taking flight. The building served as a passenger terminal from 1962 until 2001, when it was closed.
The building's exterior is dominated by a thin shell concrete roof with parabolic curves, which is divided by ribs into four segments, with the larger, symmetrical north and south segments tapering towards the tallest points of the exterior walls, and soar over angled glass curtain walls underneath. At the ends of the four ribs are Y-shaped concrete columns that curve outwards towards the top and bottom, distributing the weight of the roof structure directly to the foundation. The east and west segments of the roof are smaller, with the west roof angling downwards and forming a canopy over the front entrance with a funnel-shaped sculptural concrete scupper that empties rainwater into a low grate over a drain on the west side of the driveway in front of the building, and the east roof angling slightly upwards, originally providing sweeping views of the tarmac and airfield beyond. The exterior walls of the building beneath the sculptural roof consist of glass curtain walls, with the western exterior wall sitting to the east of the columns and the eastern exterior wall being partially comprised of the eastern columns, with the curtain wall located in the openings between the columns. To the east and west of the taller central section are two half crescent-shaped wings with low-slope roofs, with a curved wall, integrated concrete canopy, tall walls at the ends, and regularly-spaced door openings. To the rear, two concrete tubes with elliptical profiles formerly linked the headhouse to the original concourses, and today link the historic building to the new Terminal 5 and Hotel Towers.
Inside, the building features a great hall with a central mezzanine, and features curved concrete walls and columns, complex staircases, aluminum railings, ticket counters in the two halls to either side of the front entrance, a clock at the center of the ceiling, and skylights below the ribs of the roof. The space features penny tile floors, concrete walls and built-in furniture, red carpeting, and opalescent glass signage. On the west side of the great hall, near the entrance, is a curved concrete counter in front of a large signboard housed in a sculptural concrete and metal shell that once displayed departing and arriving flights. On the north and south sides of this space are former ticket counters and baggage drops, which sit below a vaulted ceiling, with linear light fixtures suspended between curved sculptural concrete piers that terminate some ways below the ceiling. To the east of the entrance is a staircase with minimalist aluminum railings, beyond which is a cantilevered concrete bridge, with balconies and spaces with low ceilings to either side, off which are several shops, restrooms, and telephone booths. On the east side of the bridge is a large sunken lounge with red carpet and concrete benches with red upholstered cushions, surrounded by low concrete walls that feature red-cushioned benches on either side, sitting below a metal analog signboard mounted to the inside of the curtain wall. To the north and south of the lounge are the entrances to the concrete tubes that once provided access to the concourses, which are elliptical in shape, with red carpeted floors and white walls and a white ceiling. On the mezzanine are several former lounges and a restaurant, which feature historic mid-20th Century finishes and fixtures.
The complex includes two contemporary hotel towers, the Saarinen and Hughes wings, which were designed carefully to harmonize with the original building and match its character. The two wings feature concrete end walls, curved Miesian glass curtain walls, and interiors with red carpeting, wooden paneling, brass fittings and fixtures, and white walls and ceilings. The only substantial modification to the structure's significant interior spaces was the puncturing of the two concrete tubes to provide access to these towers. The former terminal also features several service areas that were not previously open to visitors, which today house a massive fitness center, a cavernous underground conference center, and various meeting rooms and ballrooms, with all of these spaces, except the fitness center, being redesigned to match the mid-20th Century modern aesthetics of the rest of the building, with new fixtures, furnishings, and finishes that are inspired directly by the time period in which the building was built, and are nearly seamless in appearance with the rest of the building.
The fantastic building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1994, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Between 2005 and 2008, the new Terminal 5, occupied by JetBlue, was built, which wraps the structure to the east, and was designed by Gensler, and was carefully placed so as to avoid altering or damaging the character-defining features of the historic terminal. Between 2016 and 2019, the building was rehabilitated in an adaptive reuse project that converted it into the TWA Hotel, which was carried out under the direction of Beyer Blinder Belle, Lubrano Ciavarra Architects, Stonehill Taylor, INC Architecture and Design, as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and MCR/Morse Development. The hotel features 512 guest rooms, large event spaces, a rooftop pool at the top of the Hughes Wing, a large basement fitness center, and a Lockheed Constellation L-1649A "Connie" on a paved courtyard to the east of the building, which houses a cocktail lounge. The hotel is heavily themed around the 1960s, and was very carefully designed to preserve the character of this iconic landmark.
This Googie-like sign is at a business on the east side of Hillsboro, Ohio. Five minutes after I drove past it, I turned around, knowing that my life would incomplete if I didn't go back and take a picture of the "star thing".
Eugene, Lane County, OR
Listed: 06/01/2011
Car dealerships generally aren’t known for their great architecture, but the Lew Williams Chevrolet Dealership is an exception. With its character-defining “space age” display pavilion – influenced by the International building style – it has long served as an icon of modern design for the city of Eugene, Oregon. So much so, that the pavilion, considered “the strongest example of Googie in Eugene," is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Prior to becoming a car dealership, the c. 1949 building was actually home to a Coca-Cola bottling plant, but when the plant moved in the late 1950s, Lew Williams, who already had a dealership downtown, bought it for its prime location next to the newly widened Highway 99. The site needed a little sprucing up though, so he consulted with Balzhiser, Sedar, and Rhodes, a local architecture firm. The result was the c. 1960 attachment of a one-story, elliptical building with floor-to-ceiling windows and a “potato chip” style roof, which attracts admirers even today. The building was sold to Joseph Romania in 1969 and remained a Chevrolet dealership until 2005 when the University of Oregon purchased it. Considered significant for its association with the changing transportation infrastructure and automotive patterns, and as an outstanding example of post-war modern era commercial architecture, the dealership was listed in the register on June 1.
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
How many extinct landmarks can you pick out? The entire block has been "improved" so that it is just as generic and boring as the stuff on the Interstate. And so the mother road once again takes a gut shot from the clueless.....
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
Wich Stand was a 1950s style coffee shop with a tilting blue roof and a 35-foot spire. It housed a cocktail lounge and featured carhop service. It was declared a landmark by Los Angeles County in 1989. The restaurant opened in 1957, fell upon hard times in the mid-1980s and declined and was vandalised, including a gutting of the floors and ceilings, after the restaurant closed in 1988. The Beach Boys lived in the area and wrote an unreleased song called "Wich Stand".
A surviving example of Googie architecture, a critic said its "plunging dart of a sign keeps it from spinning off into space."
It was refurbished and reopened as the Simply Wholesome Restaurant and health food store.
-Wikipedia
Porst Compact Reflex SP with the Vivitar 20mm f/3.8 wide-angle lens and graduated ND filter on cross-processed Kodak Elite Chrome slide film.
They cobbled together three of my photos and did some "Photoshopping" to create this. And yes,... I'm the LAST person you'd expect to be featured on a Grateful Dead album.
Cruise night at Johnie's (now Big Boy) Broiler, a Googie coffee shop and drive-in restaurant in Downey. Built in 1958, demolished 2007, rebuilt 2009. 7447 Firestone Boulevard, Downey California.
From BobsBigBoyBroiler.com:
Downey's former Harvey's/Johnie's Broiler has made a major comeback from an utterly illegal Sunday afternoon demolition in 2007. Now a Bob's Big Boy, the restaurant has won the LA Conservancy's President's Award for preservation.
Fujica ST705w on cross processed Fuji Velvia 50 slide film.
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/