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Lanes
May Be Declared Landmark
Los Angeles Times, Aug.
2000
L.A. City Council will vote on designating the Holiday Bowl a
monument of postwar architecture.
Panel
Wants Bowling Alley Preserved
Los Angeles Times,
July 7, 2000
Excerpt of article about Holiday Bowl in
Crenshaw, CA
Anaheim
Librarian is Gaga Over Googie
Orange County Register, May 3, 1999
Cruising
the city's seedier side, Jane Newell is documenting the goofy, gaudy
Space Age phenomenon before it's all torn down.
Anaheim
Takes Down Its Signs
Orange
County Register, April 22, 1999
The
$5 million program was designed to cut clutter and beautify the area
around Disneyland.
The
Uncommon Man
Los
Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, March 6, 1999
Architect
John Lautner, who designed Googie's Coffee Shop (for which the style is
named), also designed three buildings in Orange County, California.
The
End of the Last Reel for the Cinedome
Los
Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, Jan. 30, 1999
The Googie-Style Movie House, an Orange Institution Since the ‘60s,
Yields to Modern Times
New
'Anaheim Resort' Area Emerges as a No-Past Zone
Los
Angeles Times, Oct. 2, 1998
Refurbished, Understated Harbor Boulevard Puts Away Its Quirky
History
Tiki!
Tacky?
Orange
County Register, June 27, 1998
The Googie style — popular in
the the 1950s and '60s — is vanishing, bit by neon bit, from Orange
County.
Ga-ga
over Googie: Roadside Retro
O.C.
Register, June 27, 1998
Be
it space-age, cocktail or tiki, Orange County has gobs of Googie.
Anaheim
Icon Will Glow Again
Orange
County Register, June 12, 1998
Satellite
sign is down, not out..
An
Ambitious Symbol Of Newark's Pride
New York Times, Oct. 17, 1997
'Googie'
diner to survive as Mel's opens on Sunset
Los Angeles Business Journal, Sept. 22,
1997
In spite of
the odds, Ben Frank's Coffee Shop lives on.
Orange
County Architecture
Los
Angeles Times
Space aged 'googie' style
goes from warp speed to time warp. Preservationists say some of the
outlandish ornaments are worth saving.
City
Cataloguing Googie Art in Anaheim
Anaheim Bulletin, November 21,
1996
Going
Googie Gone
Anaheim
Bulletin, Nov.
21, 1996
Appeal
to Save Googie
Los Angeles Times, letter to
the editor, Jan. 4, 1996
GM
Futurama Building
This General Motors press release from 1963 offers detailed
information about the GM Futurama building and exhibit at the 1964 New
York World's Fair.