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googie
/ˈɡuːɡi/
adj 1noun 1
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2GOOGIE + NOUN
architecture, cosmc
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with
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adj
1
Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s.
This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand.
Its West Coast culture was open to bucking tradition, which fed into the sudden popularity of the Googie style. With its bold and ultramodern diagonal lines, bright signs, boomerangs, and cantilevered extensions, Googie was the look of the future.
noun
1
An egg.
On one of the Northern lines there was a lane where a certain train stopped nearly every day for an old dame who was always waiting to send some eggs into town. One day the train stopped for Granny, as usual, and she explained to the driver that owing to circumstances over which she had no control she could raise eleven "googies" only on that occasion.
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This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand.
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Its West Coast culture was open to bucking tradition, which fed into the sudden popularity of the Googie style. With its bold and ultramodern diagonal lines, bright signs, boomerangs, and cantilevered
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Thirty miles north of CosMc’s, the McDonald’s No 1 Store Museum once stood, a replica of the company’s stunning post-war sci fi Googie architecture that CosMc’s’ retro-details barely hold a candle to.
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On one of the Northern lines there was a lane where a certain train stopped nearly every day for an old dame who was always waiting to send some eggs into town. One day the train stopped for Granny, a
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