Vintage neon, giant cows, aluminum blade signs and Googie design. Western New York is a treasure trove of midcentury oddities. That is, they’re oddities now – they used to be ...

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 & ...

Many of them were built in the Googie style, a cheery, future-leaning architecture that flourished during the 1950s and seen today in the signs of Norms and Johnie’s Coffee Shop. “A Googie ...

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 ...

While Googie style was hardly in its heyday when Grinstein/Daniels were designing the Western Avenue KFC (it had fallen out of favor in the mid-1960s) Hess sees the fast food joint as one of ...