Monday, September 18, 2017

Santa Ana's Pacific Electric Railway Station, 1927

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Alert reader and historian Rob Richardson sent the photo above and the accompanying article, "New Station Opened by the Pacific Elect...
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Sunday, July 02, 2017

How Googie got its name

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In discussing this exaggerated Modern form of architecture, people often ask where the name "Googie" came from. It came from a L...
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Saturday, July 01, 2017

Googie Architecture: An Introduction

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Bob's Big Boy, Harbor Blvd., Garden Grove. (Currently endangered) (The following introduction to Googie was first posted on my Googi...
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Friday, June 30, 2017

Zippy the Pinhead in Orange County

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One of the wonderful things my old Googie Architecture Online website brought me was a connection to the great surreal comic strip,  Zipp...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Googie Architecture Online goes offline

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A few days ago, the website I created in 1998, Googie Architecture Online , went kaput. (Remnants can be found via the Wayback Machine .) ...
Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Holy contributing to the deliquency of minors!

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Thanks to my pal Jim Washburn for this 1960s photo of Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward?) hanging around with Orange County high sch...
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Saturday, May 06, 2017

The O.C. Answer Man has left the building

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"Holy Jim" Smith by Blair Thornley I've been the " O.C. Answer Man ," featured on the final page of each issue o...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

Tiki In Orange County

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I'm curating an exhibit at Chapman University called " Tiki In Orange County ," which through August 25, 2017. The big kick-...
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