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Googie architecture developed in post–World War II Southern California. The name Googie itself comes from a now-demolished coffee shop in West Hollywood, which opened in 1949. Through the '50s and '60s—the space age—Americans watched their country put men into orbit and onto the moon, which inspired the futuristic style. A strong car culture developed around the same time, meaning that it was in a business’s best interest to be visible from a moving a vehicle. Googie buildings have large, bright, and bold signs to draw in potential patrons, and roofs angle up like wings or flying saucers. If built, many of the buildings in The Jetsons would be considered Googie. While the style is light and fun, attracting customers in its heyday, many fine examples have been demolished. Source: Architectural Digest
5 of the Best Googie Buildings in L.A. www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/googie-buildings-la
This Jetsons-era Googie gas station rots beside Interstate 80, just east of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. I understand it's gone now . . . ?
Shot 2002. 8 minute exposure, 160T chrome film. Night, full moon, blue-gelled strobe.
Thanks to Rezz Room for (finally!) creating a virtual Maine Coon that actually does look like a Maine Coon!
Can we get a black version next? <3
Glowy and Googie! It's so great they preserved this fabulous sign when Corbin Bowl was rebuilt.
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A 76 gas station in Beverly Hills, CA with a googie designed canopy. (If you don't know what googie is then you'll have to Google googie).
Architect: Gin Wong (William L. Pereira & Assoc.)
Location: Beverly Hills, CA
The architect didn't know he was designing a gas station. This canopy was designed for LAX. But when it wasn't needed, it was moved to this location, to be part of this service station on Crescent in Beverly Hills.
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ah the golden olden days of fabulous neon signs in barstow, calif. route 66.
Googie architecture. Main Street, Barstow.
There is so little googie left in Ottawa and I've been meaning to take a photo of this one for ages. This was the old civic pharmacy on Carling. They've incorporated this bit into the new sign for the "medicine shoppe"...(I cut that hideous part out) it really doesn't go together very well but at least they've left this bit in tact...
A lady Googie footer riding a longboard at the Alley Gold Coast. She looked as if she was haveing fun and photogenic.
Googie Capitol of the East Coast
The Byrne Building is the former Surf Side Restaurant/now museum. The restaurant was built in 1963.
The El Camino in Socorro, New Mexico is a great diner with good food, including excellent New Mexico food.
But the fun part is that this cafe was designed in the "Googie" era and still shows many characteristics. For instance, the sign outside is pure Googie.
Googie explained:
"Googie architecture was born of the post-WWII car-culture and thrived in the 1950s and 1960s. Bold angles, colorful signs, plate glass, sweeping cantilevered roofs and pop-culture imagery captured the attention of drivers on adjacent streets. Bowling alleys looked like Tomorrowland. Coffee shops looked like something in a Jetsons cartoon. "
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Image taken using Open Camera, and processed with GIMP.
The Lorraine Motel was forever etched in America’s collective memory with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, but even before that fateful day, the property at 450 Mulberry Street had a fascinating history in its own right. Before it was the Lorraine, it was the Marquette Hotel that catered to black clientele in segregated Memphis. Then, in 1945 black businessman Walter Bailey purchased the hotel, which he re-christened the Lorraine after his wife Loree and the popular jazz song, “Sweet Lorraine.” The motel became a destination for blacks and appeared in the Negro Motorists Green Book or “Green Guide,” which identified establishments that welcomed black travelers when Jim Crow restrictions offered limited options for services and lodging.
Over the next two decades, the Lorraine added a second floor and almost thirty more rooms, in addition to drive-up parking, large front windows, and a swimming pool. The Lorraine’s new design reflected the Space Age-inspired Googie style (geometric shapes and bright colors) that was popular in California in the fifties and sixties. The Lorraine’s sign, with its turquoise frame, yellow oval, and white circles is an excellent example of this trend. With its stylized exterior, excellent café, and superior service, the motel hosted more than just travelers; the Lorraine was also the site of important business meetings and celebratory gatherings, such as weddings.
The Lorraine was the preferred stop for many blacks who came to Memphis. Its guestbook was a veritable who’s who of black celebrities in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Entertainers like Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding were all guests at the motel, and two famous songs, Wilson Pickett’s “The Midnight Hour” and Eddie Floyd’s “Knock on Wood,” were both composed at the Lorraine. Negro League baseball greats like Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and Jackie Robinson stayed at the Lorraine when they were in Memphis. It was also preferred by important figures in the black business and political communities. And, Martin Luther King, Jr. stayed there on his trips to Memphis.
The Lorraine Motel reflected the monumental changes experienced by blacks in postwar America well before that moment in 1968 outside room 306 cemented the building’s place in American history.
All information above was borrowed from the following website:
www.civilrightsmuseum.org/news/posts/the-famous-lorraine-...
The Lorraine is included in the South Main Street Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 1999.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Ivan at Roys Cafe & Motel , an abandoned Rt. 66 relic in the postmodern ghosttown of Amboy California
Out in the land of dance and song, of make-believe and harsh realities, Bob's Big Boy Burgers welcomes believers into its warm bubble of Googie 50s diner goodness. Built in 1949, this location is the oldest remaining Bob's Big Boy in the U.S.
The crescent moon adds an accent to this blue hour shot of the Googie architecture of the old bolwing alley. I did remove a distracting box in this shot with Photoshop to make this more of an artistic impression. Shot this both vertical & horizontal versions and would love to hear wich one you prefer and why?
Lunar Motors - Drive into a new age!
A 1960s inspired car showroom with mid century architecture style such as Googie, space age and atomic elements.
The interior is built to be removed as shown. A mid 60's car is the showroom centrepiece along with some office desks and a seating area. Some mid century patterned walls also feature.
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