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1956 - Ship's Coffee Shop Culver City's Grand Opening:
Ships, Westwood, 1984
Title: Ships Coffee shop and high rise building at corner of Glendon Ave. and Wilshire Blvd. in Westwood, Calif., 1984 Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
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Savuer - October 2008
Vanity Fair Magazine- June 2006
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In Los Angeles, A 50's Flameout
By KENNETH B. NOBLE
Published: September 07, 1995There was just the slightest tinge of elegy discernible in Marilyn Shipman's voice as she sat in a booth at Ship's of Culver City, perhaps for the last time.
"Times change, times change," she said with a shrug and a rueful smile, seeking to explain why her family had decided after nearly four decades to close the last two Ship's coffee shops, both Southern California landmarks. (The other is on La Cienega Boulevard, at Olympic Boulevard.) "There's so much competition out there these days we just couldn't make it anymore."
However evocative a bit of Southern California history they may be -- since their opening in 1956, the three Ship's coffee shops have served about 47 million meals -- if all goes according to plan, a few weeks from now they will be demolished.
Actually, to call Ship's a coffee shop is somewhat akin to describing a rowboat as a vessel: true, but beside the point. Ship's and its distinctive rocket-shaped sign happen to be one of the country's foremost examples of "Googie" architecture, named after a now-defunct West Hollywood cafe, a wonderfully weird blend of elements of the car culture and the Sputnik era. And if the two Ship's fall beneath the wrecking ball, as they are almost certain to do unless remedial action is taken, Los Angeles will lose an oddball treasure.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/07/garden/in-los-angeles-a-50-s-flameout.html
Westsider - Weekly West LA Newspaper
Santa Monica Evening Outlook
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