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Line 13: ==Origins== [[Image:Car Wash, San Bernardino, CA.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Googie-style [[car wash]]]] The origin of the name Googie dates to 1949, when architect [[John Lautner]] designed the [[Googies Coffee Shop]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], which had distinct architectural characteristics.<ref name=Hess66-68>Hess 2004, pp. 66–68</ref> The name "Googie" had been a family nickname of Lillian K. Burton, the wife of the restaurant's original owner, Mortimer C. Burton, and aunt of musician [[Peter Matz]].<ref name=Hess73-74>Hess 2004, pp. 73–74</ref><ref name=latimes-burton>{{cite news |title=Googie's |url= Googies was located at the corner of [[Sunset Boulevard]] and Crescent Heights in [[Los Angeles]] but was demolished in 1989.<ref>Langdon 1986, p.114</ref> The name Googie became a rubric for the architectural style when editor [[Douglas Haskell]] of ''House and Home'' magazine and architectural photographer [[Julius Shulman]] were driving through Los Angeles one day. Haskell insisted on stopping the car upon seeing Googies and proclaimed "This is Googie architecture."<ref name=Hess66-68/> He popularized the name after an article he wrote appeared in a 1952 edition of ''House and Home'' magazine.<ref>Abbott 1993, p.174</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=February 25, 1952 |title=Art: Googie |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816051,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218184509/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816051,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 18, 2010 |access-date=March 5, 2009 |quote=Googie architecture, says ''House & Home'', is 'Modern Architecture Uninhibited ... an art in which anything and everything goes—so long as it's modern'}}</ref> Line 146: Preservation groups working to save Googie architecture include * [https://archive.today/20130113050542/http://modcom.org/ Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee] * [http://psmodcom.com/ Palm Springs Modern Committee] * [http://www.doowopusa.org/ Doo Wop Preservation League] | |||