| Wich Stand | |
|---|---|
 | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Googie architecture |
| Town or city | Los Angeles |
| Completed | 1957 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Eldon Davis |
Wich Stand was a '50s-style coffee shop restaurant and diner in Los Angeles, California, featuring a tilting blue roof and 35-foot spire (11 m), designed by architect Eldon Davis.[1]
The Wich Stand had two locations in the Los Angeles area. One of the buildings still exists at the intersection of Slauson Avenue and Overhill Drive in View Park-Windsor Hills, an unincorporated affluent neighborhood of Los Angeles County near City of Inglewood that is encircled. It was known for its dart neon sign.
A food critic said its "plunging dart of a sign keeps it from spinning off into space," and it's a surviving preserved examples of Googie architecture, according to The Los Angeles Times.[2][3]
The other was located within City of Los Angeles proper at the Northwest corner of Figueroa Street and Florence Avenue (as listed on menu and matchbook cover), which preceded the one "on the hill."
- ^ "OBIT> ELDON DAVIS, 1917-2011". The Architect's Newspaper. 5 November 2011.
- ^ Steve Harvey Coffee Shop Modern' Architecture Googie-History Closing the Menu on a 1950s Style June 9, 1986 Page: 1 Los Angeles Times (partial preview) [1][dead link]
- ^ Alan Hess (2004). Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture. Chronicle Books. p. 97. ISBN 9780811842723. Retrieved 24 September 2015.