Googie...
Valverde Yacht Club sign
Nice, simple, Googie sign for the Valverde Yacht Club, now gone,
of course. Jokingly named after the 1965 Platte River Flood decimated
the area.
December 9th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Westy’s
Westy’s Cafe in Westminster, a Googie-style coffee shop, dating back to the early-1960s,
maybe even the late ’50s.
The roof beams extend out through large walls of glass. A long breakfast counter runs
the length of most of the restaurant.
I believe this was originally called Reese’s when it first opened. If you know, leave a comment!
September 20th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Aristocrat Motor Hotel sign
The iconic Aristocrat Motor Hotel sign on Colfax at dusk.
Hotel and sign date from the late-1950s.
April 5th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Garland center sign
The Garland Center sign in Northglenn. This colorful sign probably dates from the
early-1960s and is reminiscent of the Celebrity Sports Center sign.
January 18th, 2011 / 2 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Citywide bank
If you were watching the news yesterday, you probably saw this Citywide Bank building
in clips as someone attempted to rob it yesterday! Of course, the police caught them
right away.
Citywide Bank is on Colfax in Aurora.
Previously I thought this bank, with it’s umbrella or trumpet-shaped columns, was from
the early-1950s, but the drive up platform in back looks like late-1960s, so maybe it is
closer to that time period.
January 15th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Dire’s Lock & Key
Dire’s Lock & Key, a nice 1950s-era structure on Broadway.
I always assumed this was a coffee shop or maybe even a Rocky Bilt, but Dire’s has
been around since WWII, so maybe it is originally Dire’s?
November 18th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Red & yellow liquor sign
Quality Liquors sign from the 1950s, I assume.
Main Street, Longmont
November 11th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Bar-L Motel
The Bar-L Motel & sign on Main Street in Longmont, likely from the 1940s.
November 11th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Wheat Ridge ‘Liquors’ sign
Nice ’50s signage in Wheatridge, with an arrow leaving no doubt where
you are supposed to go.
October 26th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Aristocrat Motor Hotel sign
Everyone’s favorite Googie-style sign on West Colfax, the Aristocrat
Motor Hotel, from the late-1950s.
(What is your favorite local sign?)
October 12th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Loveland Musuem Gallery
Loveland Museum Gallery, built 1970 with floating roof and hanging globe lamps.
September 12th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
White Spot / Davies’ Chuck Wagon
An early-1960s White Spot location on Alameda, designed by Armet & Davis, the
designers of many of the Googie-style coffee shops of Los Angeles.
This building has a butterfly roof with an additional fold. It is now part of the Davies’
Chuck Wagon family of historic coffee shops.
A light post takes the place of the original White Spot sign that
would have passed through this opening in the roof.
September 3rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Golden Bowl
Golden Bowl bowling alley, built 1955.
July 9th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Mecca Motel sign
’50s-era Mecca Motel sign in Manitou Springs
July 9th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Bowl-ero Bowling Center
The Bowl-ero Bowling Center on W. Alameda.
Although the original cartoon bowling sign may be gone, the Bowling Alley and Lounge
still stand in all of it’s mid-1950s glory.
June 26th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Applejack
Applejack Liquor sign in Applewood. The sign is from 1963, moved across the parking lot from it’s original location when the store moved to the current building.
We have been busy here latel at The Denver Eye headquarters. But expect this site to post daily and hopefully twice daily, this summer!
June 21st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
La Fon motel sign
’50s-era La Fon Motel sign from Manitou Springs
May 24th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Pig’N Whistle
Long in a state of disrepair, Eddie Bohn’s Pig’N Whistle Hotel/Motel
on W. Colfax caught fire last night.
Originally opened by larger-than-life boxer Eddie Bohn in the ’20s,
it was updated and added to over the years, until finally closing in 1991.
This was a particularly bad graffiti day a couple of years ago.
April 22nd, 2010 / 3 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Trail’s End sign
Trail’s End Motel sign towards the end of the US-40 trail on W. Colfax.
April 20th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Mod bank building in Aurora
This modernist bank on Colfax in Aurora probably dates to the early 1950s.
The umbrella shaped columns (or trumpets), are reminescent of the motif used by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Johnson Wax Building from 10 or 15 years previous to this building.
April 2nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
White Spot (Hooters)
Hooters occupies this spot which once housed a White Spot coffee shop.
These “Flying-Nun” roof buildings were designed by the famous LA Googie-style architectural team of Armet and Davis in 1961.
The covered porch is an alteration, but Hooters has kept this building in pretty good shape.
March 10th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Crown Lanes sign
Crown Lanes Bowling sign, from 1958, on South Federal.
January 13th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by admin
White Spot
One of the former locations of Denver restaurant chain White Spot. Now Los Toritos.
Googie-style design 1961 by Los Angeles firm Armet & Davis, famous for coffee shops all over L.A.
(There is another White Spot post on Tom Lundin’s site ModMidMod.)
November 1st, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
