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With the passing of the Parkmoor in Clayton, Missouri, this may just be the Googiest restaurant anywhere near St. Louis. The lettering along the roofline? Mirrored.
Reflections of neon signs adorn the hood and windshield of a Pontiac Bonneville “Nudie Mobile,” once owned by cowboy country fashion designer Nudie Cohn, at the Valley Relics Museum at the Van Nuys Airport in Van Nuys, California, on Jan. 25, 2020. The museum houses a collection of San Fernando Valley artifacts, including neon signs from the Googie era of Southern California architecture and movie props from the early days of Hollywood.
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.
Fortunately for San Francisco (though rather unfortunately for photographers) the city was largely spared the scourge of googie architecture which swept the more Southerly parts of the State in the postwar years. During my interviews with United near SFO airport however, I found this bombastic palatial example of the high googie raygun gothic in Burlingame. The Hyatt Cinema itself appears to be abandoned and empty, however, there are still tenants in the retail & office spaces of this behemoth, including the rather depressing looking chinese restaurant whose owners don't even seem to care about the letters falling off their sign on the sign at the entrance to the parking lot. Incidentally, I got the job with United the day I took this picture, but didn't get round to editing & uploading it till the day I was laid off a little over a month later.
Googie gas station
NE 50th and MLK Blvd.
OKC
This is one of my very favorite structures in OKC; every time I drive by it, I get goosebumps!
Here's more information about it:
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 Kodak Elite Chrome 200 slide film.
The former Griff's Burger Bar, Paducah, Ky. This is one of a very few examples of California coffee shop/Googie/kitch architecture in Paducah — and the ony one I know of that's still standing.
When I was a child growing up near Blackstone Ave, this was the Water Tree Inn. The coffee shop is now a sushi joint. It was right next to another googie motel called The Tropicana. Unfortunately, that one was remodeled and lost its googie facade.
Modern "supersized" take on original McDonald's architecture, 8913 Washington Blvd, Pico Rivera, California, 2-9-2019.
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:
www.flickr.com/photos/auvet/52152172423/in/datetaken-public/
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West Theater Route 66 Grants, NM
PRINT FOR SALE---WHAT A FUN IMAMGE.
THE 'WEST THEATRE' BUILT IN THE 'GOOGIE STYLE' ARCHITECTURE. JUST FANTASTIC!
This is a Fine Art photo of the the marquee sign for the 'WEST THEATRE' which was located on Santa Fe Avenue in Grants, New Mexico. It is an excellent example of the Googie style of architecture.
Built in 1971, this Googie-style building was designed by George Terp to serve as an Archway Standard Gas Station, which later was rebranded to an Amoco station, and today is a BP Gas Station. The building features a distinctive vaulted concrete canopy with two support columns at the north end, a small, simple shop building beneath the south end of the canopy, a hexagonal footprint, and a curved cut-out between the two columns at the north end of the structure. The future of the building is presently uncertain, with plans to shutter the gas station and redeveloping the site for the usage by the adjacent Moody Church being floated.