Googie/space-age architecture and design from the 50's and 60's

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This shit is so cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS6HZv4GXj8

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago)

http://www.tuvie.com/wp-content/uploads/caravan-design-by-rob-villa1.jpg

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago)

^not actually from the 50s but still cool

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago)

this book is essential

http://www.amazon.com/Glitter-Stucco-Dumpster-Diving-Reflections/dp/1859848079

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago)

this one too

http://www.amazon.com/Googie-Redux-Ultramodern-Roadside-Architecture/dp/B000C4SL2S/ref=pd_sim_b_2

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago)

http://modculture.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/20/keracolor.jpg

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago)

NO

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago)

dnw

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago)

three pics in and i already feel like i'm in some sort of daft punk robot head dystopia

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago)

http://www.georgenelson.org/images/ball4755.w.jpg

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago)

i love it, but i feel like mad men has made appreciation of this stuff reach critical mass. (stevie deux has great taste so no dis intended.)

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago)

is george nelson googie?

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago)

like i am sitting next to a george nelson turbine clock but i always thought of it more as like a minimal brass sculpture rather than high futurism

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago)

can you recommend any color films from the 50s/early 60's that epitomize or prominently display this aesthetic? Like, I feel like this stuff is so prominent in modern works that depict the 50s but I've never really seen anything from the era that played it up much.

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago)

This stuff is not what I'd call comfortable to live with. It is trying much too hard to impress you and paying far too little attention to adapting itself to your needs.

Aimless, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago)

googie is only used w/r/t architecture afaik

iatee, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY_viPkxH1I

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago)

Used to get cheap pancakes here:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/108268865_28ce50d7a2_z.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago)

This stuff is not what I'd call comfortable to live with. It is trying much too hard to impress you and paying far too little attention to adapting itself to your needs.

― Aimless, Monday, September 3, 2012 10:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well sure but it looks terrific

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago)

xp i think of googie as explicitly space-age jetsons type stuff. you should watch some low-budget late 50s / early 60s sci fi movies, a lot of the props are googie leftovers, though not put together the way you'd put together a home.

isn't there a disney movie about life in the future sponsored by general motors or something that shows a googie lifestyle?

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago)

I wrote a term paper on this once, which makes me an expert

its great but sad sorta like the nightfly, what has this led to, the mcdonalds sign? that's about it

iatee, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago)

xp oh duh, i didn't even look at your video

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago)

http://www.jetsetmodern.com/images2/54FordFXAtmos.jpg

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago)

I wrote a term paper on this once, which makes me an expert iatee

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago)

can you recommend any color films from the 50s/early 60's that epitomize or prominently display this aesthetic? Like, I feel like this stuff is so prominent in modern works that depict the 50s but I've never really seen anything from the era that played it up much.

I haven't seen this in ages, but I recall it being crammed with Palm Springs mid-century modern (which isn't EXACTLY the same as Googie, but there's some cross-pollination)...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Palm_Springs_Weekend.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago)

1956 space age:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxVKNbG_3I

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago)

This stuff is not what I'd call comfortable to live with. It is trying much too hard to impress you and paying far too little attention to adapting itself to your needs.

― Aimless, Monday, September 3, 2012 10:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, i like the idea of furniture etc that i'm not the boss of. not that i own anything like this.

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago)

OH MY FUCK, YES xp

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago)

is there a diff btwn "space age" and "atomic age"?

clijster flockhart (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago)

1962 Seattle World's Fair to thread!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgCQWEyvdl4

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago)

the lax encounter:

http://www.visitingdc.com/images/lax-encounter-restaurant.jpg

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago)

John Lautner to thread!

http://0.tqn.com/d/architecture/1/0/A/w/Elrod-House0614.JPG

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago)

that is the best

xpost to jody i swear LAX looks dystopian, like an alien quadraped from mars hunkered down over our capitol city

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago)

xp

In terms of aesthetic, there's a lot of overlap. In terms of chronology, the atomic age starts around 1949 and the space age starts around 1959.

Aimless, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago)

LAX is dystopian, in every way.

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago)

(that was the Elrod House in Palm Springs)

The Chemosphere in the Hollywood Hills (Benedikt Taschen of Taschen Books lives there now)

http://www.dailyicon.net/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/chemosphere04dailyicon.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago)

xpost

but the most googie place to eat around LAX is pann's diner:

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users11/jutotheli/default/famous-panns-diner--large-msg-114816046763-2.jpg

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago)

but the most googie place to eat around LAX is pann's diner

Since Mad Men was namechecked upthread, should point out that Pann's is the diner where the diner scene in "Tomorrowland" was filmed (when Don proposes to Megan)

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago)

and the howard johnson's exterior shots were filmed in baldwin park:

http://www.highwayhost.org/California/LosAngeles/BaldwinPark/baldwinpark1.html

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago)

i'm partial to googie's fucked-up li'l cousin, the dingbat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat_(building)

L.A.-based venture capitalist (buzza), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago)

So he was the one who bought it from Troy McClure.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5k55buxZN1qc63sno1_500.png

Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago)

stevie, have you been to wildwood? it's a charming dump and the starlux hotel is its crown jewel.

http://cls.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/2000000/1010000/1001200/1001121/1001121_2_b.jpg

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago)

also in wildwood:

http://www.preservationnation.org/assets/photos-images/issues/11-most-endangered/lolipop-motel.jpg

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago)

that's great

iatee, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago)

sorry for the giganto img size these.

arvo peart (get bent), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago)

chemosphere was featured in outer limits episode "the duplicate man"

http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2008/08/medium_chemosphere_outer_limits.flv.jpg

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago)

in los angeles plays itself the guy makes an interesting point abt these sorts of houses which is that they were all built w/these super idealistic humanist utopian intentions and in the movies they are always the vilains hideout

lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago)

tell us more about this interesting point

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago)

seems spot on

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago)

thats all i got, its a great movie tho if youve never seen it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SNc41zyLJ0

lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago)

what is that ^^

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:59 (twelve years ago)

its the documentary 'los angels plays itself' from which the aforementioned interesting point originated

lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago)

what's it about, etc

the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago)

http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/los_angeles_plays_itself.html

Outstanding documentary. Great follow-on to Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlZ0NbC-YDo

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago)

in los angeles plays itself the guy makes an interesting point abt these sorts of houses which is that they were all built w/these super idealistic humanist utopian intentions and in the movies they are always the vilains hideout

― lag∞n, Monday, September 3, 2012 9:25 PM

You might want to add The Architecture Of Villains blog to the RSS reader of your choice: http://villainslair.net

Haven't read his book, but he follows along those lines on how utopian architecture has parallel affinities with the Bond-villain architecture.

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago)

The Jack Colker Union 76 in Beverly Hills:

http://www.mimoa.eu/images/12266_l.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago)

http://www.solidquality.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/8511000041.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago)


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