Never knew of the term "Googie" Architecture!! Now that I've seen this video, it shows me what I've seen most of my life in all the various places I've lived and can accurately put a name to it!! Thank you again!!
You're welcome again! Great that you 've never heard of Googie and now know what you always saw in various places where you lived. Googie is still all over the place in the United States. Here in Europe it's less common. More videos will come up soon about other archtiecture movements.
Hey Jop! Another great and very important video. We've all seen the pictures, but the scale models and drawings really made it possible to understand the building and how smart the design was. You seriously are a John Lautner specialist by now lol. If you ever decide to come to the states and go on a tour of the houses let me know because i would love to join you then! Greetings, Peter.
Hey Peter, good to hear from you. Yes, I was really a challenge to get an overview of this demolished building. I'm gonna come to United States one day and I will let you know, then we gonna visit some Lautner homes together! The videos can not compage to a visit of a real Lautner home in reality. But untill then, I will show you some new videos. Tommorow a new video will be uploaded about Henry's Restaurant which is also demolished. Tot ziens!
Tremendous job. James Dean, an insomniac, hung out at Googie’s with friends late into the night drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, then he jumped on his Triumph motorcycle and tear up nearby Laurel Canyon to Mulholland Drive where he cruised the curvy mountaintop road into the Hollywood night. This was the Lived Fast part of his short life.
Thank you! Great that you liked the video. Yes those movie actors like James Dean had a great lifestyle. I love the stories of those iconic. I'm gonna make a video about Steve McQueen's house in the nearby.
thanks, that's why I started this channel : to give a complete overview of the houses and designs by Lautner. Cover the entire structure with every detail. Like you I had seen a lot of photos and a red a lot of books, but never I could get a clear overview: so i started my own research.
The googie simply became out of fashion in the 1970's. Nowadays everything is more boring, also more cost effective thant the Googie designs already were. I hope it will come back in fashion, because I lvoe it.
I loved all of the Los Angeles Googie architecture. There was another chain, Ship's, with the same Martian Spaceport architecture and that had individual toasters at each table and booth. Very cool to make your own toast. There was one troubling thing, a stern warning printed on the bottom of the menu pages: "Warning! Parking Only While Eating at Ships!" I always wondered what might happen if the service was delayed.
Jop your videos were already made with great care and eye for detail. Besides that they start to become mini master classes an architecture (styles). A joy to watch. Thank you.
Dankjewel! Good to read that you like also this video. Tomorrow I will upload a new video about Henry's Restaurant in Pomona, another design by Lautner that was demolished.
Great video, Jop. This Googie style is fascinating, and I agree that it's very sad that these interesting and distinctive buildings have been torn down. It's a very cool design for a restaurant.
Like Henry's restaurant in Pomona it's a great design and hope it will be rebuilt someday. Nowadays most restaurants look a bit boring... Great that you liked the video and thanks for your comments!
Well done Jop on another most interesting video 😊- Still awaiting with baited breath your take on case study house number 21. The Bailey house. Can’t wait. On another subject- what a shame that petrol stations are so boring these days! Some of the examples given on the video were stunning-🎉
Thank you for your comment. Next I will upload a video about Herny's Restaurant in Pomona, another great Googie design by Lautner that is demolished. After that I will upload the video about Case Study House 21! Indeed gas stations are boring today, we need more creativity next to the highway. It's a matter of fashion so I hope it will come back in fashion: I hope many Googie design will be rebuilt in the future.
I love your channel. It’s interesting how many times the critics get it wrong across so many different platforms. If the etymology of the word critic was curmudgeon I would not be surprised. Anyhow, what a wonderful video, I learned some new things so thank you.
Yes, the critics are wrong most of the times when it comes to art movements and architecture movements, because time will tell how important those movements were. Sometimes it takes time for the public to appriciate something. Great that you love my channel and great that you liked the video! :) Your comment stimulates me to go on! My new video will be uploaded soon ( next week).
Happy New Year Jop. What a great way to start the New Year. Thank you again for your amazing investigation and presentation of the Master. The amount of work in these videos is inspiring and the subject matter is always what I look forward to. Keep up the great work in 24 and thank you again for all of your effort. G
Thank you, I've still a few videos about Googie house to come. Also check out my video about Henry's Restaurant in Pomona. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aerMhrMUY2c.html
Though Googie's was deliberately whimsical and low-cost, its sophisticated design shows that Lautner brought his whole mind to the task. It reminds me of Frank Gehry. Pity it's gone! If extant today it would probably be some hip or chic venue but still channel it's LA roots. Hard to top a picture of James Dean standing outside of Googie's...
haha... Nothing beats a picture of James Dean in front of Googies. Indeed the buildign was cheaply but very stylish and iconic. It would be great as a movie location to. Great that you mentioned Frank Gehry, I wouln't have thought of it. but now mention it, yes! I can see it.
The age of FUN architecture! This stuff was here and there in Sacramento in the day. Like The Big Top restaurant on 16th Street. Many sexy whacked out gas stations. All replaced by garbage. I would not have included Saarinen's Dulles Airport. Thanx for the walk down memory lane!
I had no idea that the term "Googie" was based on a style started by Lautner. That was fascinating. I wish that modern places like this were that adventurous in their architecture as they were then.
I agree with you that most modern restaurant designs are boring compared to the old archtitecture, which was way more daring back then. Today cost effectiveness and practicality are mode important than style.
Yes, the price per sqft in Los Angeles is extremely expensive, but in some other place this building can easily rebuilt. I hope that somebody does it... It's a great design, I certainly would stop over for a drink..or two!
Thanks for sharing. That's the problem of this idea of 'styles' and 'names' in architecture, the essence of design is usually forgotten because of some foolishness.
There are many ways how I get the floorplans. Sometimes from books, sometimes the writers about Lautner (Saariste en Kikkert) send me drawings, sometimes from the internet and on other times the Getty Institute provides it. If you want to make a model of some Lautner houses, dont hesitate to send me a direct message: I can send all the original drawings or my own coloured version of the drawings! Best wishes Jop.
I get the plans from Jan Richard Kikkert & Tycho Saariste, they are the biographers of Lautner and they have researched all Lautner homes. They made the planes based on Lautner's original drawings.
@SuperJobbel thank you for replying. I build slot car terrain and buildings and my favourite style of architecture is googie. I am about to design and build a range of googie inspired slot car buildings, and the googie cafe is first on my list.
I have lived in Lala Land when most of the Googies were built. I still eat at a Googie coffee shop. I have always enjoyed the architecture it is sad to see most of them go. Comments: -the LAX theme building isn't Googie, but it is an example of why so few Googie's remain. The restaurant was built when few people flew and parking was free and easy at LAX. I can remember when my flight on PSA was canceled and a business man on the same flight treated me to lunch I the restaurant. Today one would gave to leave the secure zone to visit the restaurant, making well to do travelers unlikely to go there - running a restaurant successfully is very hard. Many Lala Land restaurants fail when the original successful owners sell out - Googie restaurants assumed low real estate costs, low food costs, and low labor costs. None of these costs is low any more. -patterns of eating out have changed dramatically - Lala Land seems to destroy its history
Very interesting comment. Thank you! Yes it's true that most Googie designs were built in a time were labour costs were low, so that explains why not many new Googie designs are built today. Still, it's very sad that Lalaland destroys it's own history. Funny that you still eat at a Googie's coffeeshop, which one is it?
Lautners' design was tasteful and relevant for this cafe'. Too bad he was blamed for anything negative. It's not his fault if other restaurant and building designs went overboard. Critics🤛
It is such a shame this building was demolished. I bet if it had still been standing after the renewed interest in MCM architecture, the building may have been renovated to its former glory. As mentioned in video, the building is very simple construction and a new building, hopefully a Googie Coffee Shop, could be built somewhere. I can picture one or two in Palm Springs area where MCM architecture thrives today.
Yes, I hope that someone sees this video and rebuilts the house. Although it's not very expensive I lack the funds to do it myself and I don't live in United States either. I think the restaurant will attract a lot of customers because of the architectural qualities: many people would be curious how it is to drink a cup of coffee in a true John Lautner design.
The restaurant was pronounced with a G not like in Google, but rather like fudge or range. The Googie style therefore is pronounced like the restaurant which spawned it.
@@SuperJobbel My apologies! Nice work, as always. I suppose YT removed my comment because I mentioned a popular marketplace (A) by name where the two-volume books could be purchased. The books are mostly move star related from the long-time shop manager's viewpoint, & not about the architecture/structure itself. The 'customer feedback' at the site has some interesting Googies clientele history. Keep up the great work!
Thank you, that indeed explains it: RU-vid removes comments that are considered as advertisements. They don't want products to be sold through comments. I've not read the book yet, but soemday I'm gonna purchase a copy of it. @@trout211
@@SuperJobbel my keyboard changes mid-text and I hit wrong button....I meant to say Mr. Lautner didn't really design a style; he explained he never designed a facade. It's normal to say there's a style or type of style in architecture and people understand that way. But with Lautner I tell people that he didn't do a "style" per se and he never did the same thing twice. His interest was creating dynamic spaces from the inside out and that's what makes his work so fascinating. I think the general public doesn't "get" that and the videos you make are very helpful for understanding his designs. Since most of his work was private residences, they've been mostly unseen for so long. I greatly appreciate all the pictures and presentations that are now available.
@@kimballbenson8116 okay now I get it! haha... thank you! Indeed Lautner himself was never busy with ''styles'' he just designed homes or buildings. The archtiecture historians are now categorising them into styles and explaining them based on the trademarks of a style. Like I did in the video!
I miss this style. Today's commercial buildings are ugly and boring. These buildings may be flashy but they had character. That's something this uptight world could use today.
