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Classic googie sign on top of Bowlero Lanes in Lakewood, Washington
Bowlero Lanes
3852 Steilacoom Blvd S.W.
Lakewood, WA 98499
Phone: (253) 584-0212
Back of postcard reads:
ROYAL MOTEL
Ukiah, California and Tracy, California
Free color TV in every room. Fresh, percolated coffee; room phones; completely air-conditioned; electric baseboard heat. Official AAA approved Motel.
Photo by C. Frank Tileston, Jr.
Jerome Studio, Ukiah, California
The Royal Motel in Ukiah opened in June 1965
An amazing mid-century modern former theatre in Dayton, Ohio. Now owned by Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. I hope they take good care of it,
Taken at the King's Highway Restaurant, adjacent to the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs.
This restaurant used to be a Denny's (designed by Armet & Davis). The hotel used to be a Westward Ho.
Baker Glass, El Paso, Texas. This sign looks total 1960s. I wonder if it was re-purposed or if it was always for Baker Glass.
Located at 2028 Winchester Blvd. in Campbell, CA . I just LOVE this sign. It has been associated with Blue Sky Chinese Restaurant since 1985. Wonder what it was associated with before? Note: The restaurant, itself, is home to lots of concrete screen block, if you are in to that kind of thing.
The Bob's Big Boy sign at the Burbank location.
I put one of these on my roof but the authorities made me take it down.
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Look what I found when I was scanning some of my old negatives this weekend! I took this in the summer of 1989, when I spent the summer in Pennsylvania working as a camp counselor. I have no idea where in PA this is (or even if it is in PA -- I did a lot of road tripping that summer), but I hope it's still out there somewhere.
New York Car Wash, 2615 Tuolumne Street, Fresno, California. Another view of this awesome Googie car wash
3,260 seat sports arena on the PNE grounds. Built in 1963, the arena has had its most famous moments on film - it was the site of the fight between Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago in Rocky IV and stood in for the Lake Placid Olympic Center in Miracle.
This place looked pretty rough. I couldn't tell if they were open for business or making repairs. It needs some serious TLC. A survivor from the 1950s no doubt.
Lester's Cafeteria. When the word "cafeteria" meant hearty food.
Love those vintage examples of Detroit Iron.
Vintage postcard from my collection.
Steve/rexsteed had recommended the 1989 flick "Miracle Mile", which was largely filmed in and around Johnie's.
Edit 10.10.10: I downloaded & watched it last night ... wow.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N5FBXs1ZWw
Astro Family Restaurant, formerly known as "Donly's" and "Conrad's", is a Googie-style coffee shop in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA; designed in 1958 by architects Armét and Davis.
This architectural beauty has been at the forefront of Tomorrowland since 1967. The current configuration of the land doesn't do the PeopleMover track any justice, but whenever I pass underneath, I am taken back to a time when Tomorrowland was filled with the clean, sweeping lines of a rocket age future.
First Christian Church
Designed by R. Duane Conner and Conner & Pojezny
1956
OKC
For obvious reasons, this church is my favorite building in OKC, and I'm happy to say that a nomination to the National Register is in the works for this fantastic piece of googie architecture. If it is added (and I'm sure it will be), this will be the second building designed by my grandfather to be included on the register (the first is the Y Chapel of Song on the UCO campus in Edmond, OK).
My friend, David Wanzer, and I were asked to host a mid-century architectural tour of OKC for the National Trust for Historic Preservation's national Main Streets conference here last week. Of course, we happily obliged and were delighted to show guests from all over the country some of our great architecture. Here are the buildings that we included on the tour:
St. Luke's Methodist Church (tour inside)
State Capital Bank (tour outside only)
First Christian Church (tour outside because the conference opening ceremony was held here)
The Gold Dome (tour inside)
Citizens Tower (tour inside)
Pollock House (tour outside)
St. Patrick's Church (tour inside)
This Italian-designed Googie masterpiece was built in 1965, paid for by east-coast gambling interests. It closed after only two seasons and has been empty ever since. It was engulfed in a tremendous fireball for the 1998 B-movie No Code of Conduct, which blew out most of the windows and killed hundreds of roosting birds. Watch it blow up at 1:50 during the movie trailer.
Shot in 1999. Night, full moon, 160 T film, 8 minute exposure. Ambient light only.