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 ...

For six decades, Weller’s Dry Cleaning in downtown Silver Spring was hard to miss, with its angled roof and flashy red and pink porcelain enamel panels designed to grab the attention of passing ...

Call it what you like: Populuxe, Doo-Wop, Coffee Shop Modern, Jet Age, Space Age. The mid-century Southern California architectural style, with its ski-jump roofs, starbursts and kidney-shaped signs, ...

Googie architecture, known for its jutting angles and wall-to-wall windows, could be seen in the iconic former Stardust and is still recognizable in the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign and even a ...

A woman walks outside Googies Coffee Shop and Schwab’s Pharmacy in Los Angeles. Googie architecture touched down in Los Angeles in 1949 thanks to John Lautner’s futuristic design of the long-gone ...