.

Los Angeles Magazine
"Geographia: Background Check"
Robert Ito
March 2002

One of the biggest boosters of L.A. architecture... cartoonist Bill Griffith has paid homage to... distinctive diners, doughnut shops and roadside attractions in his daily syndicated strip, Zippy the Pinhead. ...For research, the artist pours over hundreds of photos by local Googie historian Chris Jepsen.

The Architectural Review
"Sutherland Lyall Reviews Important Architecture Websites”
April 2001

If you don't live on the US west coast you probably haven't heard of Googie architecture...

Googie's was, apparently, a chain of coffee shops in Los Angeles during the '40s and '50s... Detractors labeled these structures the Googie School of Architecture. Nevertheless, architectural historians in the city of Anaheim (home to Disneyland) are supposedly now recording and archiving Googie (and the related Tiki: no don't ask) for posterity.

Though some Googie sites have disappeared,... Googie Architecture Online remains the definitive site. It's Chris Jepsen's, it's dedicated and comprehensive. Among other things, it lists current campaigns over endangered Googie coffee shops and buildings.  

Los Angeles Times
"The Valley Reconsidered -- Exuberantly Googie"
Richard Cheverton
November 12, 2000

A great place to enter the world of Googie. Excellent graphics. Boomerangs predominate.

U.S. News & World Report
"Worth A Click"
Michael Tucker
August 7, 2000

Read about the "futuristic" architecture of the '50s -- known as "Googie," "Space Age," or "Coffee Shop Modern" -- which was popular in the drive-ins, diners, motels, and bowling alleys of the era.

Christian Science Monitor
"Site Reviews"
Jim Regan
(A review of the site circa mid-1999)

Googie still has its champions - and surfers can sample the passion of one such supporter at Googie Architecture Online.

...The look compliments the subject matter perfectly, and the finished product certainly accomplishes the task of introducing visitors to this entertaining but unfortunately named architectural style.

...An extensive collection of Googie buildings and roadside signs, covering everything from the 1964 World's Fair and Disneyland's Tomorrowland, to Bowling Alleys and Coffee Shops.

USA Today
"Hot Sites"

You're invited to enter the world of Googie Architecture, the style of architecture that thrived in the 1950s and early 1960s when cars with jet-like tail fins zoomed past giant tiki gods.

Yahoo! Internet Life
"Lands of the Lost"
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Feb. 2001

A passionate tribute to the kind of design that goes perfectly with your hula hoop and cocktail weenies, Googie [Architecture Online] is a comprehensive guide to all things Space Age, Tiki and Anaheim architectural. Links, essays, and hip design make it swing.

The Scout Report
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dec. 3, 1999

Step into George Jetson's living room at this site created by Chris Jepsen as an homage to the 1950s space-age, commercial architecture sometimes called "Googie," after a Los Angeles coffee shop built in 1949. Although you may not be familiar with the term, you will recognize the style as you browse the site's Googie Gallery, which includes views of Disneyland, the 1964 World's Fair in New York, and superb Googie coffee shops and bowling alleys in Southern California, Googie's birthplace. Serious architectural historians may regard Googie as an eccentricity within American 20th-Century Architecture, but the site's Googie Links provide references to numerous books, articles, and Websites, and Googie News recounts historic preservation efforts aimed at saving the style.

Retro Magazine
February 10, 1999

Chris Jepsen has assembled an impressive Googie Architecture website.... Jepsen does a great job of defining the elements of Googie and documenting Googie sites in Orange County, at Disneyland and in the surrounding areas. He also covers offshoots of this style, such as Tiki, and provides links to those who love these little funky idols and all that is associated with them.

Jepsen laments that Googie is being destroyed at an alarming rate due to ignorance about the historical significance of the style. It's a situation similar to the rampant destruction of art deco buildings in the 1950s - 1970s, before historic preservation societies intervened. It will undoubtedly take similar significant efforts by historical societies to raise awareness of Googie and prevent its further demolition.

Tiki News
Otto von Stroheim

A beautiful and newly renovated site dedicated to Googie. 

Las Vegas Sun / Las Vegas Weekly
"The Passenger" Geoff Carter

Googie architecture ranks very, very high on the list of Things The Passenger Loves More Than Other Things. One look at Chris Jepsen's splendid page devoted to the subject should tell you why, if you have any hep in you at all. You must love those stylized starbursts, those boomerang-shaped awnings, those floating saucers. You must. If you don't, there's a page of Tiki-style architecture on the premises - a close cousin of Googie - with links to prominent Tiki sites. If only we could live in the future promised by this wild burst of late-1950s modernism, instead of the all-digital, glass facade lifestyle we're going to be driving into in the next millennium. Oh sure, it'll get us there - but unlike Googie, it ain't no ride.

Dutch Electronic Subject Service

An extensive web site, devoted to Googie, or Space Age architecture with its forms of flying saucers, boomerangs and jet-like tailfins and which thrived in the 1950s and early 1960s all across the United States. The site provides background information on the origins and development of Googie, and an explanation of its symbols and metaphors. It includes a large image gallery, subdivided by building type, furthermore news about the conservation or destruction of Googie structures, and extensive links to other networked resources on the subject, to newspaper articles and relevant excerpts from magazine articles. There is also a section on the overlapping Tiki style, which began to appear just prior to the admission of Hawaii as a state in 1959 and which borrowed elements from exotic cultures in the Pacific.

Orange County Newschannel (OCN)
July 12, 2000

If you like Googie -- Do you know if you do? -- Check out our Website of the Day. Googie is a [form of architecture] used during the [1950s and 1960s,] often reminiscent of the style of old Tomorrowland at Disneyland or the Bob's Big Boy restaurants.

The site includes a list of places here in Orange County where you can find Googie architecture, a description of what Googie is, a viewing gallery and more.