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Explore San Diego’s prime Mid Mod destination, The Pearl Hotel

San Diego California Pearl Hotel Midcentury Modern

Built in 1959, San Diego, California’s Pearl Hotel began its days as a 23-room, 2-story motel designed by local architect Robert Platt and was known as the “Hotel for…

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Retro Road Trip: A True Googie Icon, The Covina Bowl

May 20, 2018
Written and photographed by Ken MacIntyre

Is there hope for an abandoned Googie bowling alley to lace up again?

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Palm Springs Getaway: Best Places to Stay, Shop, and Eat during Modernism Week

Are you heading to Palm Springs for Modernism Week? I can’t believe It’s just around the corner! Living here full-time for the last two years has given me a chance…

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Retro Road Trip: Vancouver’s Boldest MCM Building

December 17, 2017
Written by Ken MacIntyre and Photography by Ken MacIntyre

It’s the city’s biggest, boldest and perhaps most distinguished Midcentury Modern structure still standing and is slated for a heritage revitalization project the likes of which Vancouver has never seen.

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Retro Road Trip: Las Vegas’ La Concha Visitors Center + Neon Boneyard

November 19, 2017
Written and photographed by Ken MacIntyre

Currently pulling double duty as a Visitors Center and the gateway through which guests can enter the Neon Museum’s Boneyard, the La Concha Visitors Center started out as the iconic lobby to the La Concha Motel, designed by noted modernist architect Paul R. Williams, in 1961.

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UBC Vancouver’s Modernist Metropolis

October 29, 2017
Written by Ken MacIntyre and Photography by Ken MacIntyre

For fans of West Coast Modernism there’s no better place to experience midcentury architecture than at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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