Step into George Jetson's living room at this site created by Chris Jepsen as an homage to the 1950s space-age, commercial architecture sometimes called "Googie," after a Los Angeles coffee shop built in 1949. Although you may not be familiar with the term, you will recognize the style as you browse the site's Googie Gallery, which includes views of Disneyland, the 1964 World's Fair in New York, and superb Googie coffee shops and bowling alleys in Southern California, Googie's birthplace. Serious architectural historians may regard Googie as an eccentricity within American 20th-Century Architecture, but the site's Googie Links provide references to numerous books, articles, and Websites, and Googie News recounts historic preservation efforts aimed at saving the style.
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