 | | 07/08/2018 22:23
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Mel’s Resurrects a Googie Masterpiece in Santa Monica
Imagine traveling Route 66 in 1959, perhaps in a brand new stunning Chevy Impala. After days on the road you finally roll up to the intersection of Lincoln and Olympic (the true end of the Mother Road) in the beach city of Santa Monica, and you are greeted by a dapper looking penguin in a red bowtie atop a sign near a building that almost looks like a paper airplane about to take off. You have arrived at The Penguin.
The Penguin served weary Route 66 travelers and locals alike or decades until it was shuttered in 1991 and turned into, of all things, a dentist’s office, where it was “entombed beneath a dull drop ceiling and the beigest of beige...
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