Googie architecture is a mid-century American design style known for its futuristic shapes, bold angles and most recently on Fantastic Four.

Mel’s Drive-in Restaurant in Santa Monica features retro futuristic architecture known as Googie. From inside the diner, which started as Penguin Coffee Shop in the 1950s, KCRW talks with Michael ...

The Norm's on La Cienega Boulevard is an eye-catching example of a lively architectural style known as Googie that became popular in the 1950s. This week, fans of mid-century architecture in L.A ...

Googie architecture: All eyes are on Mel’s Drive-in at end of Route 66. Mel’s Drive-in Restaurant in Santa Monica is an example of Googie architecture: a retro futuristic style featuring stretched ...

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A west Los Angeles diner that is celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture has been mentioned on a record ...

Fans of modern architecture are pushing to make the retro, angular building that has long housed Norms on La Cienega Boulevard a historic and cultural monument, worried that the beloved '50s ...

The Googie-style Norms diner on Pico Boulevard in Rancho Park, a neighborhood just south of Westwood, will shutter just before midnight on December 24. “A 47-year fixture within the Westwood ...

I agree that there are excellent examples of Googie architecture around the Los Angeles area worthy of preservation but I consider the former Lytton building not among those examples.

Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows and flashy signs. Anna Kodé, a reporter covering design and culture for ...

BOULDER – A pillar of the mid-century modern style, Googie was a futurist architectural movement inspired by the Space Age and Atomic Age, which were popular in American culture shortly after ...

Examples of Googie architecture in Las Vegas — La Concha lobby at the Neon Museum, 770 Las Vegas Blvd. North — Flamingo Collision Center, 3024 E Fremont St.

The beloved diner chain, founded in Los Angeles in 1949, offers some of the most famous examples of Googie architecture, the futuristic style popular in the mid-20th century, ...