The Rise and Fall of the Atomic Era Architecture Called Googie
34 min readJan 5, 2020
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…
