Googie Pins and Buttons

Queen Ethyl of Weenie-ania looks out over her domain and wonders why there's no background in the other version. Imaginary restaurant sign.

Queen Ethyl of Weenie-ania looks out over her domain. Imaginary restaurant sign.

Googie Satellite, no background. Go ahead and pick your own color background, ya darn fool kids, see if I care!

A house, a yard, a sky, and a car. Or a UFO.

I need a vacation

Atomic Hillbilly Nightmare mid century googie inspired

Serving home-style Italian cuisine, steaks, and breakfast until 4 a.m., this suit and tie jazz joint was the place to go for the late-night crowd that was a mix of Hollywood stars and hard-partying Angelenos.

The Melody Lane Cafes (there were several in the Los Angeles area) were owned and operated by the Pig'n Whistle Corporation. First acquired in 1927, Melody Lane was an established downtown cafe near the music publishing companies and was a popular hangout for musicians and radio personalities. When prohibition was repealed, Melody Lane began building cocktail lounges within their units. They were one of the first Los Angeles restaurants to do so. A development mirrored in The Hollywood film noir classic Mildred Pierce

Googie-styled sign for the fictitious Heart of Darkness restaurant and bar.

Perfect Holiday

Amazing!

Winkie's on Sunset Blvd. is the Googie style diner where much of the 2001 film Mulholland Drive's action takes place. In real life, it's neither actually a restaurant called Winkie's, nor is it on Sunset Blvd. It was actually shot at an old restaurant, which at the time was called Caesar's, though it was located a long ways from Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. The actual location was about 20 miles south at 1016 W. El Segundo Blvd. in Gardena.

Social distance to save a life!

Googie/Mid-Century Modern sign, or whatever you want to call it.

Ok Boomer, we get it. You stole money from the future and you're keeping it for yourself, we know. Ok Boomer.

pink, orange, green, blue, brown cute midcentury modern style bugs

After spending the last 25 years entombed beneath a dull drop ceiling and the beigest of beige drywall, Santa Monica’s vintage 1959 Penguin coffee shop is being restored to its Googie glory. The jaunty-roofed dining room was designed by architects Armet & Davis (you know their work from Norms, Pann’s, and Johnie’s on Wilshire) and served up burgers and malts for generations before the building became a dentist’s office in 1991.

Ok Boomer, we get it. You stole money from the future and you're keeping it for yourself, we know. Ok Boomer.

Bob's Big Boy sign, graphic style, with a nifty keen-o sunset (or dawn if you prefer) background.

This mid century modern inspired mandala design is made to inspire your creative googie juices.

Have you heard that astronomers think there could be a 9th planet, way beyond the Kuiper belt? How could we have not seen a planet in our solar system that’s 10 times the size of the Earth? Well, even a planet that big is difficult to detect when it’s around twenty times as far away as Neptune! Whether the real Planet 9 is out there or not, I’ve imagined a logo for it if it were more of a cute 50s atomic age diner than a mysterious celestial body. The design was inspired by the irregular orbits of objects in the scattered disk region that gave scientists the first hint that there might be another large planet out there.

Wash your hands! Pretty self explanatory!

The Future is Vintage

Bob's Big Boy restaurant sign done in a flat, graphic style.

One of the best things you can do right now is to stay home

Bob's Big Boy sign, graphic style, no background.

Abstract piece of red riding hood

Coffee Dan's roots go back to when Daniel Davis, aka Coffee Dan, opened a cabaret in San Francisco in 1879 in the basement below his coffee shop. Eventually, Dan, and later his son, John, focused on the coffee shop and shuttered the cabaret. During WWII, war production saw a demand for 24-hour diners, and Coffee Dan’s began opening several locations in Los Angeles. Open all day, every day, the diners became popular with night shift workers during the war, and continued to be the hang-out spot for late night revelers post-war. Other locations opened around the country, and followed the same formula, but by the end of the '70s, all Coffee Dan’s closed. This design is based on the early '60s rebrand, which saw Coffee Dan as a cartoon mascot.

The Future Is Vintage

Pink Flamingo Retro Graphics Design in various hues of Pink and Blue color, a palette in keeping with the midcentury modern era.

More modernistic designs

This is an original poster from NASA.

This is a NASA space suit design.

Night time neon bowling sign. Looks like another big Saturday night!

Long gone are the days of the Golden Point Drive in Restaurant. Relive them with this slick design!

Launch Burger was the spot to be back in 1962. Themed to the space race, Li'l Aster would zoom those delicious burgers straight to your car, via rocket pack. Perfect car-side service! And don't forget to order an Astro Shake!