It could be the end of an era for a place that came to define a certain architectural and food aesthetic for Los Angeles. If all goes according to plan, the iconic sawtooth "Norms" coffee shop sign on ...

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Architectural photographer Jack Laxer died Tuesday at the age of 91 in Culver City, Calif., leaving a vast chronicle of Googie coffee shops and travel images. Laxer was a master of three-dimensional ...

LOS ANGELES — Eldon Davis, an influential architect known as the father of the California coffee shop and for midcentury designs inspired by the Space Age and the region’s car culture, has died. He ...