Alan Hess Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture, Chronicle Books: San Francisco, CA, 1985, 1950
"Biff's, 1950, Douglas Honnold, [Architect, Santa Monica,] (remodeled or demolished.) With exposed neon tubing, steel channel decking, and glistening metallic reflections, the Biff's seem austerely high tech today. But the horizontal and vertical slabs, pinned together with oblique steel beams, created an elegant composition."