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Googie, also known as populuxe or doo-wop, is a subdivision of futurist architecture, influenced by car culture and the Space Age and Atomic Age, originating from Southern California in the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s.
Drive-by photography — L.A. Ann Althouse 2008
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"populuxe" as it's supposedly also known - is a style that you all recognize: that semi-Jetsonian space-age aesthetic of atoms, boomerangs, and French-curvy blobs that springs to mind when you mention "Californian diner."
theartblog brandon joyce 2010
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They were always a matched set of luggage — utopia and dystopia, the populuxe silver briefcase and the black leather duffel — and we just weren’t sure which trip we were going to take.
I Am George Jetson 2007
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