State Library of Pennsylvania STEMlab Adult Programs - 2024 Monthly Series

This Libguide is to accompany the virtual STEMlab Adult Programs for 2024

Googie Architecture Event Details

Science Programs for Adults: Googie Architecture - January 18, 2024
January 18, Noon - 1pm
What do coffee shops, Tiki culture and the Jetsons have in common? Let's find out!

Recording - STEMLab Lunch and Learn : Googie Architecture of the 1950s and 1960s

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Googie Coffee Shop (demolished), Los Angeles, California, United States of America

The Googie Coffee Shop

From Vintage Los Angeles https://www.facebook.com/VintageLosAngeles/photos/a.121200214603373/839412619448792/?type=3, used by Fair use

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Online Sources

What is Googie?
An introduction to the style
Googie
Characteristics of the movement
Streamline Moderne: The Whimsical Precursor To Mid Century Modern
The ancestor to all Mid-Century Modern architecture and interiors
Louis Kahn and his Philadelphia architecture revolution
Pennsylvania's movement of the 50s and 60s
Googie’s Coffee Shop by John Lautner | Demolished
The place the movement was named after
Googie: Architecture of the Space Age
The Smithsonian Magazine overview article
Googie 101: A Space-Age Pop-Architecture Primer
An architectural magazine overview
Guide to Googie Architecture: 13 Iconic Googie Buildings
Remaining buildings that epitomize the movement
The Rise and Fall of the Atomic Era Architecture Called Googie
The course of the movement, and why it ended
John Lautner
Founder of the Googie Architecture movement
Armet & Davis
The architectural firm best remembered for Googie Architecture
Helen Fong
Her interiors made the Googie movement what it was
Alan Hess
An architectural historian best known for his work on Googie history and practice
Wildwood: The East Coast Capital of Googie... uh, I mean Doo-Wop
The one place on the East Coast known for Googie Architecture
Googie and Tiki Architecture in America
The melding of the two movements
Clifton's Cafeteria
Considered the origin of Tiki culture
Googie
The newest book on the topic, Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove
Googies
The coffee shop, now gone, that the Googie movement takes its name from

State Library of Pennsylvania STEMlab Adult Programs - 2024 Monthly Series

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Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas!

The Googie Coffee Shop

Theme Building, LAX

Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas!

The Googie Coffee Shop

Theme Building, LAX

Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas!

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