The Rise and Fall of the Atomic Era Architecture Called Googie
34 min readJan 5, 2020
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Searching for history, beauty, and my future on my desert city’s street of broken dreams.
By the time I recognized their gaudy beauty in 1995, the 1950s and ’60s motels along Van Buren Street had largely turned into rent-by-the-hour sex dens and the haunts of drug users. Those buildings that had ceased operation sat fenced and boarded up, colonized by…