Editor’s note: Among his endeavors, Stan Poe is an author, a founder of the Willmore City Heritage Association, and a noted Long Beach historian.
At 48, the Seaport Marina Hotel is old enough to be an architectural icon
The current catchphrase for the world of architectural historians is “the ’60s turn 50.” In simpler terms, the midcentury [...]

Downey’s successful re-launch of its 1958 Broiler—first a Harvey’s, then a Johnie’s, now a Bob’s Big Boy—seems to prove nostalgia’s worth. Or does it?

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
It was a perfect Kodachrome moment: the reopening Oct. 19 of Johnie’s Broiler, Downey’s Googie-est diner: a glass-walled, horseshoe-boothed, cottage-cheese-ceilinged spaceship that had boomeranged off the corner of Firestone [...]