James Lileks takes a look back at a swinging architectural monstrosity called The Gobbler. Behold the cavelike hallways! Thrill at the passion pit, with its massive white circle bed! Gawk at the futuristic supper club! Tasteless, perhaps, but it makes the present look so very boring.
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4 Reader Comments
11:59 am
It was only natural that I clicked on “The Passion Pit” link first…I liked how they referred to it as “the screw booth” and a “clam-shelled copulation enclosure,” Fancy!
12:17 pm
I laughed out loud several times; I viewed the whole thing all the way through.
7:15 pm
8-tracks … in your room! Now THAT’S customer service.
10:16 pm
If that place existed today in somewhere like West Hollywood, it would rake in the bucks. How I would have loved to have seen that place in its glory.
I’ll bet they served a groovy fondue!