<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title> Comments on: The Penguin Coffee Shop, 1670 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, California, circa 1959 </title> <atom:link href="https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 01:47:59 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <item> <title> By: peter </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-403209</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[peter]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 01:47:59 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=23818#comment-403209</guid> <description><![CDATA[I went to the penguin on many evenings as a young teen. I knew many of the waitresses. They felt sorry for me.Drank a lot of coffee. ten cents a cup.They used to be open all nite during the 1962-65 period. Santa monica freeway construction badly hurt many of the businesses around there. Two other restaurants opened up down the street around 1965 took a lot of business.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I went to the penguin on many evenings as a young teen. I knew many of the waitresses. They felt sorry for me.Drank a lot of coffee. ten cents a cup.They used to be open all nite during the 1962-65 period. Santa monica freeway construction badly hurt many of the businesses around there. Two other restaurants opened up down the street around 1965 took a lot of business.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Martin Turnbull </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-402601</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Turnbull]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 23:50:40 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=23818#comment-402601</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-402600">Richard Michael Hill</a>. Hi Richard. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your glorious memories with us!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-402600">Richard Michael Hill</a>.</p> <p>Hi Richard. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your glorious memories with us!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Richard Michael Hill </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-402600</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Michael Hill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 23:48:52 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=23818#comment-402600</guid> <description><![CDATA[I just was reminiscing about how begining with our arrival from Dallas TX. In June of 1960, my father a newly minted elec. eng. From Texas A and M whose college ring i still wear today, and my mother upon landing at the end of route 66 and staying our first nite in a motel on Santa Monica Blvd. ,We almost immediately began a Friday nite dinner at the Penguin tradition i can never forget. I'm 70 now but I remember getting the Roy Rodgers drinks in the lounge area and also how smokey it was from the cigarettes everyone smoked in those days. My father worked a Douglas Aircraft and we lived at 1301 Oak St apt. C which last I looked still exists. Our rent for a 2 bdr. Was $90 mo. I wonder if it's been raised? We had an ocean view from our upstairs living rm window. By that i mean a tiny slice on a good day. That was the beatnik days and the phone was a party line. When I went back to those apts once years ago I remember my mother hanging laundry in the giant courtyard which had somehow shrunk like a dried apple to it's actual size. We even had a one car garage with that apt. and dad worked about a mile down the street at Douglas. The Helms truck would come thru daily and the Sunday paper was .25 cents. We used to go to the S.M. pier on weekends where .25 cents would buy me a loaded .22 rifle(shorts) in the arcade. Can u imagine them giving a kid a loaded rifle today? Nuthin ever happened in those days. Wish we could go back in time sometimes.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just was reminiscing about how begining with our arrival from Dallas TX. In June of 1960, my father a newly minted elec. eng. From Texas A and M whose college ring i still wear today, and my mother upon landing at the end of route 66 and staying our first nite in a motel on Santa Monica Blvd. ,We almost immediately began a Friday nite dinner at the Penguin tradition i can never forget. I’m 70 now but I remember getting the Roy Rodgers drinks in the lounge area and also how smokey it was from the cigarettes everyone smoked in those days. My father worked a Douglas Aircraft and we lived at 1301 Oak St apt. C which last I looked still exists. Our rent for a 2 bdr. Was $90 mo. I wonder if it’s been raised? We had an ocean view from our upstairs living rm window. By that i mean a tiny slice on a good day. That was the beatnik days and the phone was a party line. When I went back to those apts once years ago I remember my mother hanging laundry in the giant courtyard which had somehow shrunk like a dried apple to it’s actual size. We even had a one car garage with that apt. and dad worked about a mile down the street at Douglas. The Helms truck would come thru daily and the Sunday paper was .25 cents. We used to go to the S.M. pier on weekends where .25 cents would buy me a loaded .22 rifle(shorts) in the arcade. Can u imagine them giving a kid a loaded rifle today? Nuthin ever happened in those days. Wish we could go back in time sometimes.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Martin Turnbull </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-400291</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Turnbull]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:03:07 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=23818#comment-400291</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-400289">Elizabeth K.</a>. Oh wow, Elizabeth, he was the Googie architect? He must have left behind some interesting papers. Also I hadn't heard of "Schwabadero" before. Was that a commmonly used term, or was that your own invention?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-400289">Elizabeth K.</a>.</p> <p>Oh wow, Elizabeth, he was the Googie architect? He must have left behind some interesting papers. Also I hadn’t heard of “Schwabadero” before. Was that a commmonly used term, or was that your own invention?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Elizabeth K. </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-400289</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth K.]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2022 13:34:09 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=23818#comment-400289</guid> <description><![CDATA[My stepdad was the architect for the Googie coffee shops, with the most iconic of all being the one next to the “Schwabadero” on Sunset. The swooping triangular shapes passed into LA lore and architectural history, but my memory is full of thrilling first cups of coffee with the adults when the first one opened…and later as an aging teen, going there with dates for apres movie treats.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My stepdad was the architect for the Googie coffee shops, with the most iconic of all being the one next to the “Schwabadero” on Sunset. The swooping triangular shapes passed into LA lore and architectural history, but my memory is full of thrilling first cups of coffee with the adults when the first one opened…and later as an aging teen, going there with dates for apres movie treats.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Bill Wolfe </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-400081</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Wolfe]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:43:42 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=23818#comment-400081</guid> <description><![CDATA[One melancholy note from this building's past came back in the 1990s, when there were two fatal drive-by shootings of teenage boys on the sidewalk outside the Penguin within a matter of a week or two. I think of that every time I pass by this location. I'm happy, though, that it's been returned to its intended purpose as a diner, and that it was allowed to stay standing during its years as a dentist's office.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One melancholy note from this building’s past came back in the 1990s, when there were two fatal drive-by shootings of teenage boys on the sidewalk outside the Penguin within a matter of a week or two. I think of that every time I pass by this location. I’m happy, though, that it’s been returned to its intended purpose as a diner, and that it was allowed to stay standing during its years as a dentist’s office.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Paula </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2021/12/20/the-penguin-coffee-shop-1670-lincoln-blvd-santa-monica-california-circa-1959-2/#comment-400070</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paula]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=23818#comment-400070</guid> <description><![CDATA[I remember this one well, because it's right by an I10 onramp/offramp, but because it was, it was a tricky intersection. I think I only went there once.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember this one well, because it’s right by an I10 onramp/offramp, but because it was, it was a tricky intersection. I think I only went there once.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>