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Chips, the Googie coffee shop still open on Hawthorne Boulevard
1957
Hawthorne, California
Spynoodle · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Harry Harrison, trained at Taliesin, designed this coffee shop at 11908 Hawthorne Boulevard in 1957 in the full space-age idiom: a roof canted out over plate glass, tropical planting, and a steel pylon sign built to be read at 40 miles an hour. Los Angeles put up hundreds of these along its boulevards and then tore most of them down. Chips has served food without a break since the day it opened.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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