Googie (and related style and design)

[Clinamenic]

You can imagine some of this stuff in the scenery during the last section of Gravity's Rainbow. When Manager Zhlubb is first introduced at the end, and he say's "I'b dot afraid to dabe dabes" for some reason* I pictured him on the sidewalk outside the Wiltern (which isn't googie but more art deco)

*Edit: now that I'm rereading that page, this is probably because Zhlubb is introduced as a manager of the Orpheus Theatre, which I didn't have a visual of in my mind, so I defaulted to this other Hollywood theatre.

 

[Clinamenic]

Actually @IdleRich In-N-Out is another great example of googie: Notice the intercrossed palm trees around which the cantilevered roof is built. These palm trees have been incorporated into the branding of In-N-Out.

 

[Clinamenic]

@version may find it interesting how ultra-competitive fast food chains are able to subsume and commercially leverage even so niche an aesthetic as googie. Granted In-N-Out is ultimately still a regional chain, but in LA it does hold it own against the major international chains.

 

[IdleRich]

MCM to me is, in our current time, a sort of "retro modern" if you will, mainly used to describe furniture / interior design, but also suburban facades and maybe architecture at large. Although when it comes to distinguishing MCM architecture from googie architecture I'd say googie is usually flashier, sometime literally when neon is used.

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Seems to be basically the same as international style.

 

[IdleRich]

Pretty much!

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My first car was a black 65 Mustang, and I think I brought it there at least once.

You "think" you took your 65 mustang there to show off but you're not quite sure?

 

[Clinamenic]

You "think" you took your 65 mustang there to show off but you're not quite sure?

I don't always have the best memory when it comes to personal experiences, but I'm pretty sure I did that. Seems like a missed opportunity otherwise.

 

[IdleRich]

Surely you wouldn't forget cruising round in the pussy wagon?

 

[IdleRich]

Or was it pussy mobile you called it, I forget?

 

[Clinamenic]

Surely you wouldn't forget cruising round in the pussy wagon?

I do remember being scolding on a couple occasions, for driving too fast, by the security guards on the TV studio lot.

 

[IdleRich]

I saw this on twitter or something, seems to fit



Great to invent a futuristic desk but the joke is on them cos it turns out people don't use desks in the space age.

 

[IdleRich]

Life guard station in Germany





Looks cool but seems like it might take a little while to actually get down the stairs and rescue someone.

 

[woops]

the paper boat is a nice touch

 

[IdleRich]

Oberlin Ohio, yours for one million apparently...

 

[IdleRich]

This chair is pretty space age, I like it, though I suppose would be best to test it for comfort before I endorse it.

 

[Leo]

not the type of chair you buy for comfort, rich!

 

[IdleRich]

I reckon it might be ok... but seeing as you have to 'enquire about the price' I don't think it's the kind of chair I buy full stop.

 

[IdleRich]

Starburst House in Joshua Tree looks nice











Shipping containers put together quite effectively to create a gleaming crystalline structure - or possibly it's a flower envisaged on ketamine that has burst out of the desert.

 

[IdleRich]

Forgotten how space age the style of the interrogation room/holding cell in Beyond The Black Rainbow is. So at least you can admire that while waiting to be injected with consciousness muddling drugs and then subjected to bizarre psychological tests.

Actually a lot of that film seems to have a sort of atomic age gothic aesthetic which I find quite appealing. For some reason though I can't seem to share pictures on my phone so you'll have to take my word for it.

 

[william_kent]

The other day I was in the Leipzig DDR nostalgia museum and these chairs ( and the little table between) immediately caught my attention

 

[IdleRich]

They are wicked, do you know what they are called? I would love to get some like that... I guess they are expensive but I can imagine that a decent replica could be built cheaply enough and might even exist if I'm lucky.