Googie

googie English thumb|A Googie coffee shop (1956) thumb|McDonald's restaurant (1953) Etymology From Googies Coffee Shop Googie's Coffee Shop, name of a now-defunct coffee shop in West Hollywood, from the nickname of the original owner's wife. Pronunciation en /ˈɡuːɡi/ en En-us-Googie.oga GA Adjective - Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s. en 2005 w:Vince Gilligan Breaking Bad (script) Pilot This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand. en 2012 Jenny Jones The Big Lebowski Voyageur Press 9781610586528 69 https://books.google.com/books?id=jEn0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69&dq=%22Googie%22&hl=&cd=25&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Googie%22&f=false 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. en-GB Pearse Anderson ‘Lonely, gray and being actively colonized by corporations’: we tried the McDonald’s spinoff, CosMc’s The Guardian 2023-12-14 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/14/mcdonalds-cosmcs-fast-food-restaurant-chain-drivethru 0261-3077 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. Further reading Googie architecture en Architecture United States en eponyms