Helen Liu Fong, 78; Architect Created Futuristic Designs for Coffee Shops
LA Times
Helen Liu Fong, a commercial architect who helped create icons of style in the futuristic coffee shops that sprouted in Southern California in the 1950s and ’60s, died of cancer April 17 at a Glendora hospice. She was 78.
A UC Berkeley graduate who was born in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, Fong was a key member of the architecture firm Armet & Davis when it translated post-World War II optimism into distinctive designs for such restaurant chains as Denny’s, Bob’s Big Boy and Norms.
