I get reports every day about some endangered landmark in Los Angeles county. A famous home changes hands, or some real estate deal that will doom our favorite roadside joint. Goody’s in San Gabriel ...
Googie retro signs are most often associated with faded West Colfax motels, but a few of the vintage roadside graphic artworks are scattered along Federal Blvd. The Irving’s Used Car sign pictured ...
The Googie style was a major architectural trend of the post-war period in the United States. It remains popular to throwback to this style, and [Wesley Treat] got the job to create a sign in this ...
It was the 1950s. America was a superpower, and the Los Angeles area was the center of it. The space race was on. A car culture was emerging. So were millions of postwar babies. Businesses needed ways ...
Los Angeles has certainly changed over the decades, as all thrumming and humming megalopolises tend to do, but it has never fully lost its architectural adherence to a certain midcentury moxie. Stream ...
Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...
(NEXSTAR) – From the warm glow of neon to the eye-catching geometry and starburst imagery, Route 66 still appears built for photo opportunities, even as the legendary highway nears 100-years-old. But ...