Anna Kodé has a piece in the New York Times (gift article) about the early Space Age Googie style of architecture. The article is filled with eye candy and visual delights from the style, some prominent artifacts of which were still around when I was young. It brings a tremendous sense of nostalgia.
Kodé examines why people now seems so attracted to buildings that were, just a few decades ago, disparaged as being garish.
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