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, ...

Welcome to Googie A Day, a Classics Week series that chronicles some of the most beautiful diners in Los Angeles that maintain the futuristic (at the time) ethos of Googie. Think the Theme Building at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles is a design and architecture nerd’s sun-drenched paradise. Here, lookie-loos can find examples of everything from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Norms restaurant in West Los Angeles, California is shown in this undated handout photo released to Reuters March 19, 2015.

This is the 21st in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season. The 21st episode of “The Jetsons” originally aired on February 17, 1963 and was ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally published on June 16, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section. Built in the early days of airline travel, the ...

(NEXSTAR) – From the warm glow of neon to the eye-catching geometry and starburst imagery, Route 66 still appears built for photo opportunities, even as the legendary highway nears 100-years-old. But ...