If all goes according to plan, the iconic sawtooth "Norms" coffee shop sign on La Cienega Boulevard — one of L.A.'s few remaining examples of Googie coffee shop architecture of the midcentury ...

Googie architecture touched down in Los Angeles in 1949 thanks to John Lautner's futuristic design of the long-gone Googie's Coffee Shop in Hollywood. Even though Lautner designed mostly private ...