The CPF Annual Awesome Auction

Book cover for Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture by Alan Hess, featuring vintage cars at a diner, next to a black-and-white portrait of Alan Hess and promotional text about a signed book and conversation with him.Book cover for Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture by Alan Hess, featuring a vintage photo of two classic cars parked in front of a mid-century modern coffee shop at night.
Book cover for Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture by Alan Hess, featuring vintage cars at a diner, next to a black-and-white portrait of Alan Hess and promotional text about a signed book and conversation with him.Book cover for Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture by Alan Hess, featuring a vintage photo of two classic cars parked in front of a mid-century modern coffee shop at night.
Googie Redux with Alan Hess, Signed Book & Zoom Convo
Ended at: 1911 days 18 hours 53 minutes 43 seconds ago
$150.00 USD

This auction has been sold to Alan Merson at $150.00 USD.

Personalized, signed copy of “Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture” ($40 value) plus bonus personal 30-minute Zoom chat with the author Alan Hess. The book, published in 2004, is described by Amazon as “A thoroughly revised and significantly expanded edition of the popular 1980s original, Googie Redux is the authoritative history of the mid-20th century icon that ignited an architectural revolution: the coffee shop. Emblematic of Southern California car culture, stylized eateries and other roadside buildings built from the 1930s to the 1950s were dismissed as lowbrow stylistic folly in their heyday. Yet, as Alan Hess points out, in many ways they were the realization of modern architecture’s grand promises. They were populist, employed new materials, and captured their purpose, place, and culture as vividly as any great architectural style.” CPF team will arrange Zoom call with Alan for the winner.