Parking cars in America, 1910-1945
Subtitle: a history
By: Kerry Segrave
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780786470075
Subjects: Parking facilities; History; Automobile parking
Description: "This volume explores one of the more pressing aspects of the automobile problem--storage--from 1910 to the end of World War II, contrasting the reality and perception of parking as found in the pages of the popular newspapers and magazines of that period, covering early bans on street parking, street widening, parking lots, garages, meters"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Banning begins; title: Other measures; title: The general problem and solutions; title: Garages; title: Parking lots; title: Other facilities; title: Parking meters, the first two years; title: Parking meters, part 2; title: The general problem and solutions, 1945-1950; title: Conclusion.