Southern California, with its pagoda cinemas and eateries shaped like bulldogs, has long been noted for the world's largest crop of chicken-wire-and-stucco monstrosities. This month HOUSE & ...

The term Googie architecture — pronounced GOO-gee with hard G’s — is probably foreign to you, but you are almost certainly familiar with buildings that exemplify the style. This distinctive ...

Googie, on the other hand, belonged to the people. Plenty of cultural trends from the same period haven’t aged as well, like tract housing and the man in the gray flannel suit.

What to Know. Googie World Expo; Valley Relics Museum in Van Nuys; Saturday, Nov. 16; 2-7 p.m. $17.85; A Nov. 23 bowling alley tour, helmed by Chris Nichols, is also ahead; find ticket and tour ...

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The “Googie” style of mid-century modern architecture got its name from Googie’s Coffee Shop, a Hollywood diner built in 1949. Architect John Lautner designed the building at the corner of ...

Googie Architecture, Explained: A Guide to L.A.’s Unique and Quirky ’60s-Era Vision of the Future The style was heavily influenced by Southern California’s car-centric culture and its ...

Googie Architecture, Explained: A Guide to L.A.’s Unique and Quirky ’60s-Era Vision of the Future ... Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Reclaiming Her Prison Time Through Art. Rolling Stone ...

A vintage, roughly 750-square-foot Alta Dena Dairy drive-through in Tustin will reopen as a Starbucks on Thursday, Feb. 1. The former dairy shop, noted for its Googie design, has been repurposed ...

The classic Googie diner is leaving LA for the first time ever to open in Las Vegas. ... Norms Restaurant is as much an LA diner staple as it is a piece of timeless Googie art.

Jack Laxer, who spent more than six decades immortalizing great architecture and colorful places around the world through the art of 3D photography, has died in Culver City at the age of 91.