Morpheme
Googie
Type
free base
Denotation
style of futurist modern American commercial architecture popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s
Etymology
Googie’s Coffee Shop designed in 1949 by architect John Lautner and named after Googie, the nickname of Lillian K. Burton, the wife of original owner Mortimer C. Burton
Evidence
Googie
Notes
found in the phrase “Googie architecture”
