Meaning of Googie | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

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Examples

“This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand.”

“Its West Coast culture was open⟳ to bucking tradition, which fed into the sudden popularity of the Googie style. With its bold and ultramodern diagonal lines, bright signs, boomerangs, and cantilevered extensions, Googie was the look⟳ of the future.”

“Thirty miles north of CosMc’s, the McDonald’s No 1 Store Museum once stood, a replica of the company’s stunning post-war sci fi Googie architecture that CosMc’s’ retro-details barely hold⟳ a candle to.”

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