PCAD - Googie's Coffee Shop, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - coffee shops; built works - commercial buildings - restaurants

8100 West Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, Los Angeles , CA 90046-2404

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West Sunset Boulevard and North Crescent Heights Boulevard

The comedian, Lenny Bruce, was thrown through a plate glass window at Googie's in a fight in 02/1957.

This first Googie's Restaurant, for which the 1950s, space-age architectural style was named, was located next door to the legendary Schwab's Pharmacy.

Googie's Hollywood Corporation, owner of Googie's, applied for a liquor license in 1955, and had plans to turn Googie's into "Sherry's" a bar. This did not happen.

Demolished in the 1990s; a mini-mall replaced it.

PCAD id: 10162

Publications

Banham, Reyner, "Ship Shape", Architectural Review (London), 182: 1085, 10, 07/1987. Young, Paul, "Back to the future", Los Angeles Magazine, 78-83, 01/1998. "Confidential Trial to Move Over to Grauman's Theater", Los Angeles Times, B1, B8, 08/31/1957. "Googie--history closing the menu on a 1950s style", Los Angeles Times, 21, 06/09/1986. King, Barbara, "So goofy, so giddy, so Googie", Los Angeles Times, F3, 10/20/2005. "Three Injured in Cafe Battle on Sunset Strip", Los Angeles Times, 5, 02/05/1957. Cheverton, Richard, "Exuberantly Googie; why the Valley's burger stands, carwashes and 20-foot dwarfs belong among America's architectural treasures", Los Angeles Times Magazine, 16+, front cover, 11/12/2000. "Coffee-shop architecture tours take you back", Sunset Magazine, 17, 01/1996.

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