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American author architectural.critic and lecturer. Hess is a strong advocate for preserving american mid century architecture among his many books one which stands out is "googie-coffee shop architecture "although the googie movement became an archetypal nomenclature which eventually swept the united States in the 1950s it had it's origins in southern California primarily in the Los Angeles area. Hess features such emblematic examples of the genre by focusing on such late greats as 'tiny naylors' the pines and 'ships(never close) coffee shops. The ships on pico in la is briefly highlighted in the 1985 film"into the night" it has long since been demolished. Hess is Still the architectural critic for "the San Jose mercury news"
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