[1] Architects Louis Armét and Eldon Davis of Armét & Davis designed the building, contributing to their reputation as the premier designers of Space Age or Googie coffee shops—including the landmark Pann's coffee shop in Ladera Heights, Norms Restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard, and several Bob's Big Boy restaurants.

[1] "Johnie's" is spelled in massive neon lights and flashing incandescent lightbulbs on the building's striped roof.

The roof sits on the rock columns, sloping down toward the back of the restaurant, ending in a sharp decline that gives the illusion of movement like a spaceship ready to take off.

[1] The restaurant is perhaps best known as the setting for much of the first act of the 1988 cult film Miracle Mile, in which a patron learns that a nuclear war is about to begin.

Johnie's is located across from the May Co. department store, one of Los Angeles' best examples of Streamline Moderne architecture, on the Miracle Mile.