Influenced by the coming of the Space Age, the Googie-themed architecture popularity was most notable from the mid-1940s to early 1970s, among motels, coffee houses and gas stations.

The term "Googie" comes from a now defunct coffee shop and cafe built in West Hollywood[1] designed by John Lautner.

A number of postwar motels in New Jersey, including a cluster in The Wildwoods, have been recognized as high-style Moderne architecture, and some or all of these have been termed Doo-Wop and/or Googie in style.

A number of these were studied in a National Register of Historic Places 2001 architectural survey.

[23] The Caribbean Motel (1957) is one of those studied which was subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places;[24] it and numerous others are listed in the New Jersey-designated Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District.