from googie to tiki oasis — radío flomm stirs martinis, mai tais + modernism

“There’s a rea­son for FLOMM to ex­ist. Our phi­los­o­phy ac­tu­al­ly sort of came from George Car­lin, among oth­er things.”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“So every time I try to ex­plain Goo­gie to some­one, they glaze over.”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“You know, Alan Hess called it ‘ac­ces­si­ble architecture.’”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“Let’s make the signs big­ger than the build­ing! … and keep the roof go­ing so it grabs peo­ple off the side of the road …”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“So, I de­cid­ed to do this font based on let­ter­ing that turned out was show­ing up on Goo­gie build­ings. And we took for grant­ed … most of them are gone now. They’ve been bulldozed.”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“Tiki style in­cor­po­rates, as a cul­tur­al move­ment … tex­tiles, men and wom­en’s cloth­ing, mu­sic, ex­ot­i­ca mu­sic … food … all dif­fer­ent kinds of art, graph­ic art, fine art, sculp­tur­al art, wood carv­ings, you know, carv­ing Tikis was a big deal. You had in­te­ri­or de­sign … There were whole firms …”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“Lit­tle touch­es like plas­tic flow­ers, ex­ot­ic drinks and even spe­cial uni­forms for the flight at­ten­dants … I think it’s more than just a decoration.”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“I don’t think you might hang out at the pool in a Jack­son Pol­lock for too long, but it sounds like I had that op­tion here.”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“I was an in­te­ri­or de­sign­er be­fore this. And … it was dur­ing that Tus­can era, every­body want­ed their house to look like an Ital­ian vil­la. And it’s like, oh god, if I have to do more of those, I’m gonna die.”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“Here’s this op­ti­mism of post-World War II, but every­one was miserable.”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“So you suf­fer for your mid-cen­tu­ry mod­ernism then Steve?”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“Just leave Cuba alone. Just leave Cuba alone. You know, get on with your own life. Let the Cubans sort out Cuba”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

“What is that? What is that?”
—radío flomm 2 june 2026

 

atom­ic bat­ter­ies to pow­er: RADíO FLoMM [goo­gie]

 

FOR IM­ME­DI­ATE TRANSMISSION
INARA GEORGE AU­DREY DAGGETT LEONARD NI­MOY STEVE MEHAL­LO MICHAEL MUR­PHY VICK­IE BRAUN KEVIN HODGE BUD­DY MOR­ROW AND HIS OR­CHES­TRA SHARK JAY AL­LE­GRET­TI REM­MY AND JU­LIA KAREN CHANCE OF STAR­DUST VIN­TAGE EM­PO­RI­UM MAR­TIN DEN­NY MILK SUR­FACE OTTO VON STRO­HEIM GEORGE CATES COM­BUSTIBLE EDI­SON MILT RASKIN KOOP NEL­SON RID­DLE PAUL ROU HOYT CURTIN JOHN BAR­RY TER­RY CAL­LI­ER THE KELPS NEAL HEFTI LES BAX­TER KID OK STOP

NOW STREAM­ING
COM­PO­SI­TION OF RADíO FLoMM IS MADE POS­SI­BLE IN PART BY
CARTERS LIT­TLE LIV­ER PILLS
SEV­ENTH­SWA­MI
NEV­ER BOARD PRINT STU­DIO AND STREET ART STORE
NEJA’S ART WALKS
AND
DIEGO VALLE | LTHM STOP

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—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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