Googie

Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

Adjective

Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s.
- This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand. - 2005, Vince Gilligan, “Pilot”, in Breaking Bad (script):
- Its West Coast culture was open to bucking tradition, which fed into the sudden popularity of the Googie style. With its bold and ultramodern diagonal lines, bright signs, boomerangs, and cantilevered extensions, Googie...
- Thirty miles north of CosMc’s, the McDonald’s No 1 Store Museum once stood, a replica of the company’s stunning post-war sci fi Googie architecture that CosMc’s’ retro-details barely hold a candle to. - 2023 December...

From Googie's Coffee Shop, name of a now-defunct coffee shop in West Hollywood, from the nickname of the original owner's wife.