It was the 1950s. America was a superpower, and the Los Angeles area was the center of it. The space race was on. A car culture was emerging. So were millions of postwar babies. Businesses needed ways ...

How to explain our love for Googie architecture? Perhaps it reminds us of a time when we looked toward the future with a sense of wonder and optimism. That was, after all, the spirit of the design; as ...

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 ...

Metal swoops and fiberglass fins and sails. Perpendicular planes of glass and concrete jutting at 90-degree angles, bordered by tropical plants. A gleaming, skewed canopy painted in primary colors ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Gayle Anderson was live in Crenshaw District ...