• Alan Hess (born 1952) is an American architect, author, lecturer and advocate for twentieth-century architectural preservation. "Alan Hess [is] a prominent...
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  • revived by the 1986 book Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture by Alan Hess. A photograph of the building by Julius Shulman and commentary on the...
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    the top, trimmed in animated neon. According to architectural historian Alan Hess, "Meston and Fish turned the crude half-circle suggested by Richard McDonald's...
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    beginnings are with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s. Alan Hess, one of the most knowledgeable writers on the subject, writes in Googie:...
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  • Lautner (Googie Films, 2009) Alan Hess, "Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture" (Chronicle Books, 2004), pp. 66–74 Hess, "Googie Redux," p. 69 Infinite...
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    Moses (Moritz) Hess (21 January 1812 – 6 April 1875) was a German-Jewish philosopher, early communist and Zionist thinker. His theories led to disagreements...
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    quoted speed of 75 mph (121 km/h). In the bitterly cold winter of 1947 Alan Hess and a team of drivers with 3 Austin Sixteen vehicles undertook a publicity...
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  • about the origin of McDonald's golden arches, architectural historian Alan Hess wrote: "Nationwide success and proliferation have obscured the origins...
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    Alan Hess of the company's publicity department that he could not drive round the world in 30 days in the car. In 1951, an A40 Sports driven by Hess achieved...
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    Beverly Hills, (Ca): 1930-2005, Arcadia Publishing, 2006, p. 39 [5] Alan Hess, Forgotten modern: California houses 1940–1970, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith...
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