Space Age Gas Station...
We have admired this unique gas station, in Incline Village, NV for years. We thought it was time to get out and admire it up close.
The Orbit gas stations are a wonderful example of the Googie architectural design — a style of building that became popular in the 1950s for its exaggeratedly modern, space age features. Named after a popular coffee shop that epitomized the style, Googie architecture’s garish, outsized signage — typically attached to cantilevers, parabolas or boomerangs — beckoned travelers and suburbanites alike during the 1950s and ’60s.
A late modern commercial architecture, Googie proved to be the perfect, comfortable, joyful style suitable for roadside and main-street businesses — cafes, movie theaters, bowling alleys, service stations and car washes.
Googie design gave cities an optimistic face of the sleek, futuristic technology sparked by the astonishing forms of the planes and ships that emerged after World War II. Now it gives me the desire to go on a Googie Scavenger Hunt. Oh man, Googie is groovy, indeed.
2 comments:
I want to know how I can buy this station
Apparently the problem is the cost to clean up underground storage tanks including the risk of contamination and Lake Tahoe cleanup standards.
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