Sunny & Mild Media presents Part 2 of its Googie Architecture Series, presenting design work at the cusp of technological innovations of the 1950s. Emerging out of an obsession with the fast new world ...

At the peak of the modern era, a meshing of car culture and the Space Age brought about the gaudy and garnished Googie architecture. The signatures Googie style lie in sweeping arches and hard angles, ...

Los Angeles is a design and architecture nerd’s sun-drenched paradise. Here, lookie-loos can find examples of everything from historic Spanish Mission Revival apartment houses to midcentury-modern ...

Before I moved to Los Angeles (almost 2 years ago now) I had never heard the word Googie. In fact, when a friend — a native Californian — used the term I initially thought it must have something to do ...

Have you ever noticed a diner, or perhaps a motel, gas station, or drive-in, that looks like it would fit in the Jetsons’ neighborhood? A confluence of car culture and the Atomic and Space Ages, ...

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 kind of ...

The quickest way to sicken a modernist is to bring him to a midcentury Los Angeles diner. It isn't the food that will nauseate him. It's the architecture. Googie is the name for it, coined by the ...

Pass by the intersection of 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road, and Phoenicians can't help but notice the architecture of the 300 Bowl. This bowling alley constructed in 1958 screams fun. Created in ...

The Norms restaurant in West Los Angeles, California is shown in this undated handout photo released to Reuters March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Nels Youngborg/Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Comission/Handout ...

new video loaded: Googie, a Futuristic Style of Architecture, Is Endangered Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows and ...