What a fun roof! But it's so dirty. They should hose that off.
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An homage to the can-do attitude of architects and designers of the 1950s & 1960s, when the American and specifically Californian attitude said that man can do anything that he could imagine. Googie architecture reflected a space-age optimism that is being slowly demolished throughout the county as “progress” claims that boomerangs & sputniks are tacky & kitsch. The Orange County Googie Archive aims to document the remaining examples of Googie architecture in Orange County, while they last.
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See, this is why I DO this! If only I had shown up earlier to take a photo of the old roof! This is a kind of amateur preservation society, and I need help! Augh!
actually, I've lived in the area for over 40 years and can remember when this building was the garden department of the adjacent hardware store (originally family-run company called Kerm Rima). The "tent" was blue and white and I always read it to evoke a garden tent or a pavilion. While outrageous in its scale and context, it really did not have much to do with googie per se.
This is a affectionate of abecedarian canning society, and I charge help!
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