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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.
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This is one of my very, very favorite structures in OKC. It's an old gas station that has been abandoned for years now, but every time I'm in the area, I have to stop and take a photo or two of it because it's just so fantastic.
I've tried to figure out who designed this and have never had any luck. I believe that it was originally either Stiles Champlin Service Station or Kitchen's Corner (when I pull up addresses for both of these places, googlemaps takes me here). They were both in operation at the same time, so I'm thinking that Stiles Champlin was the gas station and maybe Kitchen's Corner was a convenience store?
At some point, the gas station became a Sunoco -- one of the 70's-era pumps is a Sunoco pump. I have no idea when this place closed, but I've driven by here for the last 10 years, and it has been closed all of that time.
One day last spring I was here taking some photos, and an elderly man came up to me and asked me if I was going to buy the place. I told him that I didn't intend to but that I really loved the building. He said that the original owner designed and built this unusual gas station and that he had just died. He then said that he thought that the land and abandoned gas station was still owned by the man upon his death, which is probably why it has never been torn down. Unfortunately, the guy I talked to didn't remember the owner's name, which means that I am still trying to track down the story behind this great Googie structure!
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/
KCMODERN friend, Scott Butterfield did some serious scan work of 'The House that HOME Built' brochure to let us share it with our readers. The promotional brochure was designed and printed by NBC for participating builders to use in their marketing of the 'HTHB.' Kansas City Modern Builder, Don Drummond gave the brochure to Scott's parents in 1955, when they were thinking about having Don build them a house. Don Drummond signed the back cover for Scott at a soiree during the Drummond Weekend in 2006.
Also note the math notation on the last image from 1955 to Scott's parents, "1680 square feet x $15 per square foot = $25,200." That is not a bad price for a Jones and Emmons designed home that was also built by Joseph Eichler. That would be $200,000 to $275,00o in today's dollars depending on what conversion you use. I would hate to have to try to build it today for $275k!
Enjoy 'The House that HOME Built' in all its Mid-Century Modern goodness!
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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/
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
Located in Whittier, CA along State Route 72, aka former US Highway 101, aka WHITTIER BLVD. Taken with and edited on my iPhone
One of the great remaining Googie buildings in Orange County, CA. At the corner of Harbor and Chapman Ave.
Previously posted to ochistorical.blogspot.com.
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."
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/
Built 1960 Architect - Macklin Hancock .... in Mid 20th Century Expressionist "Googie" style .... Perched upon the bank of a lagoon, the hexagon shaped pavilion / restaurant sports a folded copper ribbed roof, supported by massive timber beams ....
Best viewed against a black background. Click the zoom tool to enlarge or press the "L" key.
Roy's Motel and Cafe is a defunct motel, cafe, gas station, and auto repair shop on the National Trails Highway of U.S. Route 66 in the Mojave Desert town of Amboy in San Bernardino County, California. The historic site is an example of roadside Mid-Century Modern Googie architecture. Located not far from the town of Twentynine Palms and the landmark Amboy Crater. Great example of architecture influenced by car culture and the space/atomic age.
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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.
One of the last, best Googie buildings in Orange County.
Previously posted to ochistorical.blogspot.com.
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/
aka: Chez Arbée
Arby's Roast Beef outlet with original 1960s(?) signage and architecture. Photo: 5 Aug., 2006
El Camino Real, South San Francisco, California
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/
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
The Spankin-Kleen Launderette, in downtown Liberty NY, gets a well needed face lift to it's googie design front. A worker scrapes old paint from the fins.
Liberty NY was the heart of the Jewish Catskills resort area. Liberty was the home of Grossingers, one of the largest, and most prominent of the Catskills resorts. Once, a very busy town during the summers.
Today, it is a sleepy little village, looking slightly depressed, with lots of empty store fronts, and typical businesses such as a dollar store, wireless, laundromat, and a number of antique and craft stores.
Googie Grill offers American style comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.
For more info visit: www.seemonterey.com/listings/Googie-Grill/5040/
Sign for Harkness Furniture on South Tacoma Way (Highway 99) in Tacoma, Washington
Print version: society6.com/VoronaPhotography/Googie-furniture-sign_Print
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Johnie's coffee shop & restaurant (built in 1955) is only used anymore as a film location site and thankfully this place like so many before hasn't been torn down ........some of the bulb and neon signage still works at night and even though every month it seems less and less they still turn it on.............
The building and signs are great examples of googie architecture here in LA