I didn't made the scale model, somebody else made it and I used the photos for the video. His name is Gijs Hoeijmans. It's indeed an imaginative structure.
In most countries the history of architecture is not appriciatet: when building get old they are being demolished and replaced for buildings that are Maybe more practical but less beautiful. It's all about practicality these days.
@@SuperJobbel Ironically, some of the most unique business establishments we have left are the themed buildings, usually fast food restaurants, from the 60s-00s that were purchased and converted into something else, retaining the outer shapes! lol
That's true sometimes they make a totally different building out of a theme building. I have a video about the other Googie designs and theme building of that period: ruclips.net/video/F_9b-rjmGQI/видео.html&pp=ygUTZ29vZ2llIGpvaG4gbGF1dG5lcg%3D%3D @@mikeb6085
Knew this place very well growing up in Glendora, a few miles west of Pomona. My Dad took the family here often, and when we weren't eating here, we would go to The Castaways for a tropical vibe , also in Pomona.
Oh nice, really great to speak to someone who actually visited the place. I hope you have good memories about the building. It's more than 35 years since the restaurant was open. Funny that you YT name is ''Dutch'' , I am Dutch haha.
@@SuperJobbel "Dutch" is actually my real life nickname and I am of Dutch ancestry and have some of what may be the traditional traits of NL natives, but the truth is I'm about as dutch as an enchilada is dutch, especially when I'm in the Netherlands, which of course I love. Who could not love a nation that threw an ocean out of their land, I mean, who does THAT? ☺
Nicely edited. Your combination of the photographs and then the scale model is a nice touch. I really felt like I was sneaking back into the restaurant.
Haha... thank you! Giving people the feeling of walking through the houses/buildings is actually my purpose with these videos. Giving people a complete overview while they don't have the opportunity to actually visit.
Outstanding presentation! As a child, I first went to this Henry's with my family in 1961. My memories recall it "twinkled" with light. I can now see why with abundant natural light coming in during the day and interior lights reflecting off of the glass at night. It was a magical space. We called it "the upside down boat" because the roof looked like the hull of a boat. It was so uniquely beautiful.
Thank you for calling the presentation outstanding. Great that you actually visited the house back then. A magical space and upside down boat is a very good description of the building. So sad that it doesn't exist anymore: I never will have the change to visit....
The way it was situated in the corner of an orchard 7:05 was beautiful. And leaving some of the structure exposed encourages the customer to contemplate the architecture while waiting for his meal.
Thanks for your comment. The last two videos were about forgotten designs by Lautner, they indeed show that he was more than only an archtiects of luxury homes.
Great that you liked the video. It was indeed my intention to preserve the restaurant with a video and show people the beauty of the design. Hopefully this building will be reconstructed someday..
I was wondering the same thing. 6:59 The guy with the chainsaw may answer our question. Looks like he's demolishing the pieces, to make them easier to discard with the bulldozer. But who knows?
@@TheAnimeist 😰😰😰 That makes me sad to see. Those were beautiful custom pieces of laminated wood that were absolutely enormous. You could have made four custom houses out of those beams.
Yes, you're right! The guy with the chain saw cut the beams and used them for his own home, a castle like structure: I know this because there's a book I read "Lautner A-Z" that tells the whole story of the beams. In the book you can read that some of the beams are still existing today. I use this book for inspiration in multiple videos.
Yes, as a matter of fact: there's a house made of these beams. Read the book "Lautner A-Z" by Tycho Saariste and J.R Kikkert to know everything about what happened with the beams.
It is that book! :) Fantastic. I can totally appreciate why you reference it. I didn’t know how amazing it might be and then was so delighted to finally get a copy! Please do keep making your fantastic videos. No one else I’ve encountered has such a deep appreciation for this mater designer and builder. I don’t think we will Eber see another John Lautner! He is unique!
Yes, it's a great book. Enjoy reading it. I used the drawings in that book for most of the videos. John Lautner was an architect who's indeed one of a kind.
Yes, you're welcome. Thanks that you call the presentation excellent because it was a very difficult video to make: the available information was very limited, still The Henry's Restaurant was a great design so it deserved an overview. I'm already busy with my next video which will be about Case Study house 21.
Looking forward to that. I believe that 21 was Pierre Koenig's favourite project albeit not as famous as 22. Certainly a controlled exercise in minimal modernism, and reflects the international style more. I appreciate it, however not sure how good it would feel to actually live in it? Anyhow cant wait for this and thanks so much again for all your efforts and work to preserve this historic architecture on video, so that I and others can learn from your investigations and your passion. G @@SuperJobbel
Yes, the house is probably Koenig's best design although not as iconic as nr.22. I won't how practical it is to live in that house but it's iconic for sure. The video will be upload saturday 27th of january. @@grantwatson9232
A great restaurant. I love the glulam beams. They show the endless possibilities and strength of wood. I learned about them while living with some architects in the early 1980s.
Such a shame that this beautiful building went into disrepair and was torn down. Your drawings and the scale model help to visualize it. Again, an ingenious design, that allows for innovative structure.
Yes, it's truly a shame that this building doesn't exist anymore. Hopefully it will be rebuilt some day. Also credits to the person who has made the scale model (I never made a scale model).
I love the skeleton like structure used in this. All his buildings feel so organic, like it is alive. The only architect today that do something similar is Santiago calatrava
Yes, Calatrava is indeed a good successor of Lautner, I don't know if he's inspired by Lautner. Another great organic architect is Kendrick Bangs Kellogg. His designs are amazing.
hey buddy.... great video, I always feel like you take us on a little time traveling journey in your spaceship of architectural awesomeness. much appreciation to you and John.
''Time travelling in a spaeship'' That's a funny description of the videos.... Thanks for you comment and indeed the most apprecitiation has to go to John Lautner! Till the next video :)
Was wanting to tell you that I recently bought the rather large coffee table book on Lautners works which I had been hoping to acquire for many years. The high price always held me back but I found a hardback copy and as I had never seen one for sale before, I mustered up the money and bought it. Wanted to say that it is a wonderful book and I hope you have a copy! Thanks again for all your outstanding work documenting Lautners work. :)
Great that you have the book. (I don't know exactly which book you mean.... But I guess you mean the book authorized by Lautner himself and written by his assistant Frank Escher...) . That's that I use most often to search for information. More videos will come up about Lautner's design but also about other architects.
Thank you so much for a great video for a place that I have seen almost nothing about. Other than it was great. You really gave us a lot and I agree, the dappled sun in the carport must have been nice!
Yes, also this design by Lautner is sadly little known. Therefore I make this videos: giving more attention to these wonderfull designs. I neve seen the structure in reality, but it must have been wodnerfull to be there.
Okay great. I never heard of the Futurama Bowl in San Jose but I shall check it out! Sounds interesting, I love the Googie style restaurants from this 1950's, 60's and 70's.
@@georgekrpan3181 Oh thanks, I took a look at the book by Alan Hess but somehow I didn't notice the Futurama Bowl. but I googled it: awesome looking structure, very interesting dome like roof. i never heard of the architect Power who designedd it. Was it a bowling alley? It doesn't exist anymore, does it?
@@SuperJobbel Yes, it was a bowling alley and no, it was demolished. I think the sign still exists for the shopping center that is now there. What was Power's first name? I want to google him. I think he lived in Silver Lake in SoCal.
@@georgekrpan3181 Hey I've checked it out for you: Powers, Daly and DeRosa were the 3 architects who designed the Futurama bowl. They were an archtiecture firm: you shouls google Powers, Daly and DeRosa and a lot of results will pop up!
Great! Most churches designed in 1950's, 60's and 70's had very great designs. Some of them were really masterpieces of modern archtiecture. Which church did you went? Does the building still exist?
Thats such an easier design than googies. Kinda reminds me of the chart house restaurant in rancho mirage. But that was designed by Kendrick Kellogg, another great organic architect.
Oh great! I never heard of that restaurant but I googled it and it indeed has some similarities with the Henry's restaurant. I really liked the design, thank you! I was already familliair with Kendrick Kellogg because he is an architect who is truly inspired by Lautner, I really like his High Desert House.
the average architect might spend an entire career developing such an iconic design. Most of Lautner's creations may look 'dated' in 2024. The first thing to observe is that they were all decades ahead of their time and more often than not remarkably original. It may take an architect to appreciate Lautner's genius but the more one learns the more one inevitably appreciates his talent his originality and his productivity.
The more you look into his designs the better they become: all the details, features and all the clever solutions is what makes them so great. Some of his houses don't look special at first hand, and some look better form the inside than from the outside. But they are so brilliant in any way. Each house is different proving his great originality and inventiveness. And yes, many designs by Lautner were many years ahead of there time. I've still 9 videos ahead before I've captured all the important designs by Lautner.
What was "d" address? What is "dare" now? (learn the TH noise, it's not difficult). 107 E. Foothill Blvd. I went to street view, and there's a lovely parking lot, right near a Burlington coat "factory" (actually the factory is in China, but whatever). Absolute crap.
With the time the fashion changes: in 1950's and 60's this house was hot, but in the 70's and 80's it became out of fashion, now we all hunger for those beautifull design... but it's to late... Indeed preservation and protection would have been great. Protecting the history of archtiecture. I hope that somebody watches this video and rebuild this building again.
The restaurant is an object in a sea of parking. The idea of connecting the inside to the outside is great but when when the outside is a parking lot without any landscaping it's a textbook modernist fail. @@SuperJobbel
@@ubroc Yes you could be right. I never haven't seen the restaurant in reality, still on photos I can see there's a lot of sunlight and open spaces: so inside is combined with outside, but indeed: a parking lot is not the most romantic landscape.
I really love and miss this era of architecture... Clean, simple lines... A forward looking design... We need more of that today!
Absolutely true! We need more of these designs, hoepfully some aspiring architects watch this video and get inspired.
Sure beats the brick stripmall commodities with some tacky commercial branding slapped on the facade that we have today...!
Yes this is the way we should deisng restaurants today. @@mikeb6085
You are a master of getting John Lautner, and his creations, known to history. He deserves the exposure. Thx for your hard work and this presentation.
You're welcome and thank you for your comment! :) More videos will coming up! I started this channel because he indeed deserves more exposure.
Thank you so much for these videos and preserving history for generations to come.
I like making these videos and preserving the history. These design deserve to be seen by a large audience. Great to read that everybody likes it!
Thank you for the model of the building. What an imaginative fantasy structure! 😎
I didn't made the scale model, somebody else made it and I used the photos for the video. His name is Gijs Hoeijmans. It's indeed an imaginative structure.
How sad, that superior architecture isn't appreciated in this country.
In most countries the history of architecture is not appriciatet: when building get old they are being demolished and replaced for buildings that are Maybe more practical but less beautiful. It's all about practicality these days.
@@SuperJobbel Ironically, some of the most unique business establishments we have left are the themed buildings, usually fast food restaurants, from the 60s-00s that were purchased and converted into something else, retaining the outer shapes! lol
That's true sometimes they make a totally different building out of a theme building. I have a video about the other Googie designs and theme building of that period:
ruclips.net/video/F_9b-rjmGQI/видео.html&pp=ygUTZ29vZ2llIGpvaG4gbGF1dG5lcg%3D%3D @@mikeb6085
Knew this place very well growing up in Glendora, a few miles west of Pomona. My Dad took the family here often, and when we weren't eating here, we would go to The Castaways for a tropical vibe , also in Pomona.
Oh nice, really great to speak to someone who actually visited the place. I hope you have good memories about the building. It's more than 35 years since the restaurant was open. Funny that you YT name is ''Dutch'' , I am Dutch haha.
@@SuperJobbel "Dutch" is actually my real life nickname and I am of Dutch ancestry and have some of what may be the traditional traits of NL natives, but the truth is I'm about as dutch as an enchilada is dutch, especially when I'm in the Netherlands, which of course I love. Who could not love a nation that threw an ocean out of their land, I mean, who does THAT? ☺
Nicely edited. Your combination of the photographs and then the scale model is a nice touch. I really felt like I was sneaking back into the restaurant.
Haha... thank you! Giving people the feeling of walking through the houses/buildings is actually my purpose with these videos. Giving people a complete overview while they don't have the opportunity to actually visit.
Thank you for your videos, sir!
I really appreciate the work you put into your videos. Very interesting video again. Bedankt!
Graag gedaan!
Outstanding presentation! As a child, I first went to this Henry's with my family in 1961. My memories recall it "twinkled" with light. I can now see why with abundant natural light coming in during the day and interior lights reflecting off of the glass at night. It was a magical space. We called it "the upside down boat" because the roof looked like the hull of a boat. It was so uniquely beautiful.
Thank you for calling the presentation outstanding. Great that you actually visited the house back then. A magical space and upside down boat is a very good description of the building. So sad that it doesn't exist anymore: I never will have the change to visit....
Brilliant job, as always! Thank you!
Youre welcome, thanks for your comment.
The way it was situated in the corner of an orchard 7:05 was beautiful. And leaving some of the structure exposed encourages the customer to contemplate the architecture while waiting for his meal.
Your comment is 100% true. Thank you! :)
Really appreciating these last two episodes. Opens up a whole new area of his work to me.
Thanks for your comment. The last two videos were about forgotten designs by Lautner, they indeed show that he was more than only an archtiects of luxury homes.
Such a shame to see a beautiful structure torn down, but thank you for preserving it forever in such a well researched and presented video.
Great that you liked the video. It was indeed my intention to preserve the restaurant with a video and show people the beauty of the design. Hopefully this building will be reconstructed someday..
Whoever tore down this building I hope to God that they took those beams and built another house with it. Those beams are absolutely beautiful.
I was wondering the same thing. 6:59 The guy with the chainsaw may answer our question. Looks like he's demolishing the pieces, to make them easier to discard with the bulldozer. But who knows?
@@TheAnimeist 😰😰😰 That makes me sad to see. Those were beautiful custom pieces of laminated wood that were absolutely enormous. You could have made four custom houses out of those beams.
Pity for demolition....I think is such a shame! That structure was remarkable, like every John's project. John Lautner makes my ❤️ beating so fast!
Yes, you're right! The guy with the chain saw cut the beams and used them for his own home, a castle like structure: I know this because there's a book I read "Lautner A-Z" that tells the whole story of the beams. In the book you can read that some of the beams are still existing today. I use this book for inspiration in multiple videos.
Yes, as a matter of fact: there's a house made of these beams. Read the book "Lautner A-Z" by Tycho Saariste and J.R Kikkert to know everything about what happened with the beams.
It is that book! :) Fantastic. I can totally appreciate why you reference it. I didn’t know how amazing it might be and then was so delighted to finally get a copy! Please do keep making your fantastic videos. No one else I’ve encountered has such a deep appreciation for this mater designer and builder. I don’t think we will Eber see another John Lautner! He is unique!
Yes, it's a great book. Enjoy reading it. I used the drawings in that book for most of the videos. John Lautner was an architect who's indeed one of a kind.
Great work, as always.
Thank you!
Excellent presentation of a design language and process that rarely exists today. Thanks again Jop! G
Yes, you're welcome. Thanks that you call the presentation excellent because it was a very difficult video to make: the available information was very limited, still The Henry's Restaurant was a great design so it deserved an overview. I'm already busy with my next video which will be about Case Study house 21.
Looking forward to that. I believe that 21 was Pierre Koenig's favourite project albeit not as famous as 22. Certainly a controlled exercise in minimal modernism, and reflects the international style more. I appreciate it, however not sure how good it would feel to actually live in it? Anyhow cant wait for this and thanks so much again for all your efforts and work to preserve this historic architecture on video, so that I and others can learn from your investigations and your passion. G @@SuperJobbel
Yes, the house is probably Koenig's best design although not as iconic as nr.22. I won't how practical it is to live in that house but it's iconic for sure. The video will be upload saturday 27th of january. @@grantwatson9232
A great restaurant. I love the glulam beams. They show the endless possibilities and strength of wood. I learned about them while living with some architects in the early 1980s.
yes Glulam beams are awesome! also check out my videos about the Chemosphere and the Schwimmer House, they have a beautiful use of glulam beams.
Such a shame that this beautiful building went into disrepair and was torn down. Your drawings and the scale model help to visualize it. Again, an ingenious design, that allows for innovative structure.
Yes, it's truly a shame that this building doesn't exist anymore. Hopefully it will be rebuilt some day. Also credits to the person who has made the scale model (I never made a scale model).
I love the skeleton like structure used in this. All his buildings feel so organic, like it is alive. The only architect today that do something similar is Santiago calatrava
Yes, Calatrava is indeed a good successor of Lautner, I don't know if he's inspired by Lautner. Another great organic architect is Kendrick Bangs Kellogg. His designs are amazing.
hey buddy.... great video, I always feel like you take us on a little time traveling journey in your spaceship of architectural awesomeness. much appreciation to you and John.
''Time travelling in a spaeship'' That's a funny description of the videos.... Thanks for you comment and indeed the most apprecitiation has to go to John Lautner! Till the next video :)
This is an exceptional video. Thank you for your work!
Thank you for your comment. Great to read that you liked the video, your reaction stimulates me to make more videos.
It's a shame to see such beautifully designed buildings being torn down.
and it happens so often as well just to make way for a cookie cutter mcmansion.
That's indeed what's happened quite often.
Total agree with you. Somebody should preserve these houses.
THANKS FOR SHARING - - GREAT VIDEO + GREAT ARCHITECT! 😃👍👍
You're welcome! I like making these videos, John Lautner is the best! :)
@@SuperJobbel He’s most certainly up there in the top 10-12 I’d say 😎👍🏼👍🏼
Merci for those discoveris! Greetings from 🇫🇷
de rien! salutations des Pays-Bas
exciting design; structure and configuration; the best designs often get demolished unfortunately. one for the archive!
Yes that's true. With this video I wanted to great some kind of archive, to preserve the legacy of this otherwise forgotten building.
I love your work. Thank you
Thanks. Great to hear from you! I've received many reactions from you, always nice to read them. More presentations will come up!
Was wanting to tell you that I recently bought the rather large coffee table book on Lautners works which I had been hoping to acquire for many years. The high price always held me back but I found a hardback copy and as I had never seen one for sale before, I mustered up the money and bought it. Wanted to say that it is a wonderful book and I hope you have a copy! Thanks again for all your outstanding work documenting Lautners work. :)
Great that you have the book. (I don't know exactly which book you mean.... But I guess you mean the book authorized by Lautner himself and written by his assistant Frank Escher...) . That's that I use most often to search for information. More videos will come up about Lautner's design but also about other architects.
thank you for sharing what you could about the building!
You're welcome this were about all the photos that were available of the building.
Great building and great video - thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you so much for a great video for a place that I have seen almost nothing about. Other than it was great. You really gave us a lot and I agree, the dappled sun in the carport must have been nice!
Yes, also this design by Lautner is sadly little known. Therefore I make this videos: giving more attention to these wonderfull designs. I neve seen the structure in reality, but it must have been wodnerfull to be there.
What a gorgeous space!
Yes it was :( !
heartbreaking. what a wonderful design
Well done. Lots of great info.
Thank you! I like making these videos.
Love to see the old orchard in some of the photos.
Unfortunately the orchard is long gone, and replaced for many other buildings.
Beautiful world class architecture. 👏 sad loss of history.
Hopefully it will be rebuild someday.
Wonderful video
Thank you!
Thank you Jop!
You're welcome! More videos will come up soon.
My grandfather and his son built and operated the Futurama Bowl in San Jose, CA.
Okay great. I never heard of the Futurama Bowl in San Jose but I shall check it out! Sounds interesting, I love the Googie style restaurants from this 1950's, 60's and 70's.
@@SuperJobbel Cheers! The Futurama appears In the book, Googie, Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture by Elon Hess.
@@georgekrpan3181 Oh thanks, I took a look at the book by Alan Hess but somehow I didn't notice the Futurama Bowl. but I googled it: awesome looking structure, very interesting dome like roof. i never heard of the architect Power who designedd it. Was it a bowling alley? It doesn't exist anymore, does it?
@@SuperJobbel Yes, it was a bowling alley and no, it was demolished. I think the sign still exists for the shopping center that is now there. What was Power's first name? I want to google him. I think he lived in Silver Lake in SoCal.
@@georgekrpan3181 Hey I've checked it out for you: Powers, Daly and DeRosa were the 3 architects who designed the Futurama bowl. They were an archtiecture firm: you shouls google Powers, Daly and DeRosa and a lot of results will pop up!
I wish someone would rebuild this beautiful building.
I have the same wish! :)
OMG ,I’ve been to that Disco…
Great that you had the privilege to visit such a great design. I hope this structure will be rebuilt some day.
where was this located in pomona?
101 E Foothill Boulevard, CA 91767.
A church that i attended in the early 70's had similar glulam beams that spanned from one side to the other. I wondered how these were made.
Great! Most churches designed in 1950's, 60's and 70's had very great designs. Some of them were really masterpieces of modern archtiecture. Which church did you went? Does the building still exist?
Yep. Better deno these buildings because Denney’s image is so important.
Corner of Garey and Foothill Blvd.
Thats such an easier design than googies. Kinda reminds me of the chart house restaurant in rancho mirage. But that was designed by Kendrick Kellogg, another great organic architect.
Oh great! I never heard of that restaurant but I googled it and it indeed has some similarities with the Henry's restaurant. I really liked the design, thank you! I was already familliair with Kendrick Kellogg because he is an architect who is truly inspired by Lautner, I really like his High Desert House.
the average architect might spend an entire career developing such an iconic design. Most of Lautner's creations may look 'dated' in 2024. The first thing to observe is that they were all decades ahead of their time and more often than not remarkably original. It may take an architect to appreciate Lautner's genius but the more one learns the more one inevitably appreciates his talent his originality and his productivity.
The more you look into his designs the better they become: all the details, features and all the clever solutions is what makes them so great. Some of his houses don't look special at first hand, and some look better form the inside than from the outside. But they are so brilliant in any way. Each house is different proving his great originality and inventiveness. And yes, many designs by Lautner were many years ahead of there time. I've still 9 videos ahead before I've captured all the important designs by Lautner.
14000 views onlu 500 likes
come on, show some love .
Haha....yes please people give me more likes otherwise I'm feeling so sad...
What was "d" address? What is "dare" now? (learn the TH noise, it's not difficult).
107 E. Foothill Blvd. I went to street view, and there's a lovely parking lot, right near a Burlington coat "factory" (actually the factory is in China, but whatever). Absolute crap.
Hahaha I shall try to learn the ''TH'' , I must practise with it. Yes it's a waste THat THis building isn't THere anymore...
It is a shame it was torn down; However, it was in Pomona….. much of which should also be …….. torn down 😮
Do Americans not appreciate anything .Time less beauty and style .it should have had a preservation order on it .
With the time the fashion changes: in 1950's and 60's this house was hot, but in the 70's and 80's it became out of fashion, now we all hunger for those beautifull design... but it's to late... Indeed preservation and protection would have been great. Protecting the history of archtiecture. I hope that somebody watches this video and rebuild this building again.
Everything right and everything wrong with modern architecture in one building.
Interesting comment, please explain...
The restaurant is an object in a sea of parking. The idea of connecting the inside to the outside is great but when when the outside is a parking lot without any landscaping it's a textbook modernist fail. @@SuperJobbel
@@ubroc Yes you could be right. I never haven't seen the restaurant in reality, still on photos I can see there's a lot of sunlight and open spaces: so inside is combined with outside, but indeed: a parking lot is not the most romantic landscape.
Is this AI generated voice?
No it's my own voice. I have a Dutch accent. Do I sound like a robot? Haha