Mel's Drive-In in Santa Monica is one of the few Googie buildings left in the city, with an imposing neon sign, soaring roof and plate glass windows. It’s also the official terminus of Route 66, which ...

Step back in time at this retro California diner, where chrome accents gleam, burgers sizzle on the griddle, and milkshakes still steal the spotlight.

Here, some spots draw lines before the doors even think about opening, with regulars treating the wait like part of the ...

Tucked away on a bustling street in Riverside sits a time capsule of California’s golden age of drive-ins, where the breakfast burrito might just be the best thing you’ll eat all week – George’s Drive ...

George’s Drive-In in Riverside is exactly that kind of place – a retro gem hiding in plain sight with a breakfast burrito that might just change your morning routine forever. The blue angular supports ...

Conner + Perry Architects restore Lautner’s Castle, a modernist house by the 20th-century master, set in the sunny expanses ...

This sign seems to have struck a chord within the community, not just because of its blunt message but the form it’s riffing on: a familiar red municipal sign highlighting snow emergency routes, ...

Marbella Sala wasn't getting ahead of herself. Sala, president of the Gardenland-Northgate Neighborhood Association, had just watched the Sacramento Preservation Commission vote to recommend that the ...

Designers Billy Cotton and Leyden Lewis join Escher GuneWardena Architecture to refresh a historic Los Angeles residence, ...

The future of mankind depends on late-night diners in Norms’ restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard in a new film coming out on ...

As Palm Springs Modernism Week returns, photographer Trey Burnette captures the desert city's midcentury architecture at night ...