View allAll Photos Tagged Googie
Back of postcard reads:
SANDS MOTOR INN
313 N. Arlington Ave., Reno, Nevada
A Brand New Motor Inn Featuring 24-hour Telephone Service, T.V., Complimentary 24-Hour Coffee Bar, Individual Control Heat and Air Conditioning and Many Other Appointments Which Make This A True Motor Inn In Every Sense Of The Word. "AN OASIS OF LEISURE"
Architects: Armet and Davis
Year: 1965
Hope University occupies what used to be a retail center designed in a Googie-style architecture.
Follow me on Instagram @kelvinccheng
I can't believe I've gone 10 months without photographing this build! I displayed this at Brickvention 2020 which seems like an absolute world away now with everything transpiring since.
It utilises some of those non-production Scala plates which was the impetus for buying them in the first place.
The sign is based on the Linbrook Bowling alley in Anaheim, California, a beautiful remnant of the era when Googie style ruled the roadside.
This was the first and is the last remaining location of the Parliament House Motor Inn chain. It opened in 1962 on Orange Blossom Trail. For the past several years the Parliament House Resort, a gay resort that featured live entertainment, has operated on the premises. It closed in October of 2020.
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.
Built in 1959-1960, this Googie building was designed by Shayman and Salk for the Miller Development Company, replacing a public school that formerly stood on the site. The building is characterized by its exterior clad in wood, brick, and rough-hewn stone panels, butterfly roof with diamond motifs, large windows, and metal balconies. The building today is one of the best-preserved mid-20th Century motels in the city of Chicago, and is one of the city’s best examples of Googie architecture.
It's been a while since I've uploaded a photo not taken with my iPhone. I think this Route 66 beauty from Tulsa is a good start.
Googie architecture originated in Southern California. It is inspired by 1900's vision of what future architecture would look like. Googie architecture was the new, and the booming Anaheim, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas opened new opportunities for developers and architects alike to build cities inspired by UFO-shapes. However, much of the googie architecture are already replaced or demolished.
Mona's motel is located right down the road from Gabe's Gas & Grease. Despite the fashionable colors, Mona was worried that her motel looked too bland to be noticed from the road, and had a rather striking roof made for the lobby area. To top it off she ordered an outrageous sign and placed it on the roof. As the parking lot is full of cars, we might conclude that her strategy has been a success.
Bailey remembering all the fun she had traveling through 3 states back in April. Here she is in TX near a truly Googie picnic area
MOTEL CALIFORNIA is a celebration of sparkling blue pools, flashing neon signs, automatic ice machines and bleached white towels. It is the story of the rapid rise and subsequent decline of the individually owned mom-and-pop motel in The Golden State. It is an exploration of theme-based marketing and a documentation of American culture at perhaps what will be the most prosperous time in United States history.
Author: Heather David
Design: Benjamin Shaykin
Hardcover with Jacket - 184 pages - Price: $45.00
For an online preview, see www.flickr.com/photos/14696209@N02/albums/72157681790467802
To purchase online, please order at www.calmodbooks.com
Close up scene of the few in existence Googie styled futuristic lighted sign. Still a classic in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles.
We had the best clouds in L.A. yesterday.
19616 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana CA.
**addendum** -- this photo was selected to be a part of the permanent "Architecture of the 50's" exhibit at the new International Bowling Museum being built in Arlington, TX.
1060 W. San Bernardino Rd.
As of this posting in December 2021, the bowling alley was demolished, and a new development will be going up in its place. But they are apparently keeping this amazing Googie masterpiece.
For the first time I can remember, the Space Needle was lit red last Friday, and only that day. I'm glad I took the opportunity to shoot a photo of it. It looks really striking!
I suppose if the Soviet Union had invaded, we could have looked forward to a lot of "red" lighting on the Space Needle.... ha.
Some of the coolest neon signage you're likely to find for a liquor store is The House of Spirits in Echo Park, featuring a house with smoke that comes out of the chimney and a nice googie style sign on the street, it's also a great neighborhood liquor store that does a lot of business. often photographed, it was cool to catch it on a rainy night in LA with the colored reflections on the street
Update: 2020, After a fire broke out in the back of the building The House of Spirits has sat empty, On 7/1/2020 the iconic neon sign came down as it was donated to the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale CA. The Telis family, who has owned the building for 50 years and ran the store and the property. Potential buyers have tried to buy the property but nothing has happened yet. The neon liquor bottle was stolen recently so MONA made the move to save the rest of this vintage 50's neon signage.
This Googie style Mid-Century Modern diner was designed by renowned architects Louis Armet and Eldon Davis in 1953, originally Kerry's Coffee Shop it changed ownership and name in 1989 and has been part of the Mel's chain of diners where the first Mel's opened in 1947 in San Francisco CA