Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove | By Michael Murphy, with text by Alan Hess | Angel City Press | $50
Cruise down the Strip, and you can’t miss them. Jitterbug profiles, bright candy outlines, a sea of lowered coupes and leaded noses surrounding them—Googies! Insouciant, perky things that they were, Googies, much like a band serving up perfectly tuned harmonies but not landing at the top of the charts, were never in absolute sync with the times. They never quite found a champion with enough juice to get them a spot on the hit parade. They were, to the gatekeepers and apologists of the
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