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 is a design and architecture nerd’s sun-drenched paradise. Here, lookie-loos can find examples of everything from historic Spanish Mission Revival apartment houses to midcentury-modern ...

Metal swoops and fiberglass fins and sails. Perpendicular planes of glass and concrete jutting at 90-degree angles, bordered by tropical plants. A gleaming, skewed canopy painted in primary colors ...

The Norms restaurant in West Los Angeles, California is shown in this undated handout photo released to Reuters March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Nels Youngborg/Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Comission/Handout ...

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A Los Angeles diner celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture was granted historic monument status by city officials on Wednesday, protecting it from the ...

‘A beige blob’: Historic preservationists say new paint damaged Weller’s Dry Cleaning, a rare icon of mid-20th-century Googie architecture in Silver Spring For six decades, Weller’s Dry Cleaning in ...

WHITTIER >> The head of a group that owns the iconic car wash at Five Points is frustrated by the roadblocks he’s facing with his plan to build townhouses on the site. “We’re losing money every day,” ...

The Googie-style Norms diner on Pico Boulevard in Rancho Park, a neighborhood just south of Westwood, will shutter just before midnight on December 24. “A 47-year fixture within the Westwood community ...

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 ...