Editing Googie architecture (section)

==Origins==
[[Image:Car Wash, San Bernardino, CA.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Googie-style [[car wash]]]]
The origin of the name Googie dates to 1949, when architect [[John Lautner]] designed the [[Googies Coffee Shop]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], which had distinct architectural characteristics.<ref name=Hess66-68>Hess 2004, pp. 66–68</ref> The name "Googie" had been a family nickname of Lillian K. Burton, the wife of the restaurant's original owner, Mortimer C. Burton, and aunt of musician [[Peter Matz]].<ref name=Hess73-74>Hess 2004, pp. 73–74</ref><ref name=latimes-burton>{{cite news |title=Googie's  |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-10-me-22162-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=July 10, 1986 |access-date=February 27, 2011 }}</ref>

Googies was located at the corner of [[Sunset Boulevard]] and Crescent Heights in [[Los Angeles]] but was demolished in 1989.<ref>Langdon 1986, p.114</ref> The name Googie became a rubric for the architectural style when editor [[Douglas Haskell]] of ''House and Home'' magazine and architectural photographer [[Julius Shulman]] were driving through Los Angeles one day. Haskell insisted on stopping the car upon seeing Googies and proclaimed "This is Googie architecture."<ref name=Hess66-68/> He popularized the name after an article he wrote appeared in a 1952 edition of ''House and Home'' magazine.<ref>Abbott 1993, p.174</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=February 25, 1952 |title=Art: Googie |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816051,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218184509/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816051,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 18, 2010 |access-date=March 5, 2009 |quote=Googie architecture, says ''House & Home'', is 'Modern Architecture Uninhibited&nbsp;... an art in which anything and everything goes—so long as it's modern'}}</ref>

Though Haskell coined the term Googie and was an advocate of modernism, he did not appreciate the Googie aesthetic. In his article he used the fictional Professor Thrugg's overly effusive praise to mock Googie, at the same time lampooning Hollywood, which he felt informed the aesthetic.<ref name="Smithsonian2012" />