Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Vintage photos of 1950s diners show the quintessentially American restaurants in their heyday

By the 1950s, diners were a staple for the average American restaurant-goer, mainly due to their low prices, large menus, and extended hours.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Is this the world's most glamorous airport hotel? Inside JFK's Sixties-inspired TWA Hotel

Jane Mulkerrins felt like an extra on 'Mad Men' when she stayed at the new TWA at JFK

I went last week, although I didn't stay there. It was absolutely mind blowing. I would absolutely stay there if I get the chance!

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The Case Study houses that made Los Angeles a modernist mecca

These homes helped to define modern architecture.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The grooviest bachelor pad in Chicago modeled its kitchen after The Brady Bunch

The only thing missing is Alice!

When I was younger I used to want to be rich so that I could build a replica of the Brady Bunch house. This guy, partially, did it. It's not exact, but it evokes the era and it's still very cool in that mid-century way.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The Vanishing World of Neon Motel Signs - Atlas Obscura

A photographer has spent decades capturing these symbols of Americana and the open road.

I love these old signs. Many years ago, before everyone had a camera on their phone, I wanted to put together a coffee table book about old neon signs. That was in the '90s. It is very sad to watch the rapidity with which these signs are disappearing. It was/is an endemic part of Americana. Worse, their replacements are the boring, generic, sameness of the typical 21st century roadside experience, which has replaced style with monotony. Not just hotel signs either, but all signage. Have you seen Las Vegas lately? It looks a lot more like any other new urban environment than Las Vegas. It's just another symbol of the current American desire to replace individualism with conformity.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Don the Beachcomber to close Sunday in Sunset Beach; new location being sought

Renowned tiki restaurant Don the Beachcomber will close Sunday night after nearly 10 years at its Sunset Beach location, the restaurant announced Friday.

Southern California is intent on becoming nothing but a soulless land of giant steel and glass boxes.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

The legacy of ‘Mad Men’ won’t be its clothes or its cocktails. It’ll be all that modernist furniture.

How “Mad Men” has influenced our tastes in design.

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Mad Men Sets Have Arrived in New York, and They are Glorious - TV Time - Curbed National

Photos via Architizer "Matthew Weiner's Mad Men", an exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York opens tomorrow, March 14, offering visitors the chance to...

If only I had the money to go to New York. I would definitely go just to see this.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Thank the Jews for the "Mad Men" Aesthetic: How They Designed the Modern American Home

The mid-century modernists who fled Hitler helped shape a visual aesthetic that's still pervasive, as shown in a new museum exhibit.

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Own a Mies van der Rohe Home For $160K Design News | Apartment Therapy

Detroit certainly has some bargain real estate at the moment, but perhaps none as great a deal as this. The Lafayette Park complex was designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1959, with this fully remodeled 1,400 square foot townhome currently asking $159,900.

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Modern home: CJM spotlights midcentury Jewish designers | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California

J. provides weekly news articles, reviews and features about the Jewish community of the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Stunning, spectacular 1961 mid-century modern time capsule house in Minnesota -- 66 photos! - Retro Renovation

This 1961 mid-century modern time capsule house outside Minneapolis is SPECTACULAR. And we have 66 photos!!

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Newsweek: The Rise of the McMansion - Los Angeles’s Endangered Modernist Homes

Los Angeles’s architectural gems are being endangered by a hot real estate market—and a decidedly Beverly Hills aesthetic.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Googie Grocery Store Threatened

Current operator Superior Grocers has proposed a renovation of the mid-century grocery store that would remove many of its Googie features.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Adventure Thru Inner Space Promotional Artwork

This is a full scan of a promotional booklet that Monsanto put together in 1968 for the tragically now-deceased Tomorrowland attraction

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Buy a Hal Levitt Modern in Encino With a Swim-Up Shower

Celebrities (Jennifer Aniston, Ellen DeGeneres, Michael C. Hall) love architect Hal Levitt's and they also kind of love Encino--could they perhaps really...

Another great thing from 1968!

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Iconic Case Study Houses Finally Reside on National Register

Case Study House #22 (Photo by Michael Locke via the LAist

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Valley Retrospective: The 1950s

The 1950s were the time of Marlon Brando and leather jackets. Of Dwight D. Eisenhower, everybodys Grandpa, on the golf course.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Johnie's Coffee Shop | Los Angeles Conservancy

The beloved Johnie's Coffee Shop at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax is on the road to landmark status!

The Conservancy and our Modern Committee, with the help of architectural historian Alan Hess, have submitted a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) nomination for the iconic Googie restaurant building.

Good news! So far...

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

1955 Disneyland Opening Day [Complete ABC Broadcast]

Disneyland Park is a theme park located in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of the Walt Disney Company. ...

There is NOTHING more mid century than Disneyland!

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The Yacht Bar at Yesterland

Yes. Disneyland had a "Yacht Bar." Do you need to know anything else about how much things have changed?

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to close after 55 years as cultural mecca

In the summer of 1958, Santa Monica inaugurated its dazzling concrete, glass and steel Civic Auditorium, an emblem of the mid-century modern International Style then popular throughout the world.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What do they mean that "Gov. Jerry Brown dissolved community redevelopment agencies"? And, SoCal continues to devour its own heritage.

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

Franklin Avenue: Saving Glendale's Mid-Century Courthouse

Architecture & Interior Design | Mid Century

11 Things We No Longer See on Airplanes

Traveling by airplane used to be a lot different—and we’re not just talking about elaborate and cumbersome security restrictions.

Not really architecture...but still cool!