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 ...

Architectural photographer Jack Laxer died Tuesday at the age of 91 in Culver City, Calif., leaving a vast chronicle of Googie coffee shops and travel images. Laxer was a master of three-dimensional ...

On the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax boulevards, in central Los Angeles, a cluster of major museums hugs the hectic intersection. There’s the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an institution bearing ...

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 ...

Johnie’s Coffee Shop Restaurant can no longer offer visitors burgers and fries. But it can serve up a taste of an architectural style that’s quickly disappearing. Sitting at Wilshire Boulevard and ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles diner celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture was granted historic monument status by city officials on Wednesday, ...

On a bustling Monday morning, Corky’s mint green booths are full of regulars — Sherman Oaks old timers having a coffee, a couple eating the same breakfast they’ve eaten for twenty years, a crew of ...

Eldon Davis, an influential architect known as the father of the California coffee shop for midcentury designs inspired by the Space Age and the region’s car culture, has died. He was 94. Davis died ...

It’s an all-too familiar story: a beloved local institution bites the dust as a developer swoops in to build apartments. But one modest Seattle restaurant has found a number of advocates that are ...

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 by singer Tom Waits and ...