Maybe I'm just too young to ever hear about or see this...or possibly because I grew up in a small town in Kansas. But how exactly does this work...a cool vintage picture of a vertical parking structure...
Cool pic...I have never seen one in the states but did see a modern version in Tokyo that also works like a Ferris wheel
Thanks for posting that photo. It was one of my favorites. I lost it quite a while back in a computor crash. Yes, think Ferris wheel and yes, it was NYC. There were a few more photos where that one came from, wish I could recall where it was.
I'd hate to park mine in one of those. I'd have people *****ing about mine leaking all over thiers!!!
What about Barney Pollard buying all of those antique cars in the 40's 50's and 60's hanging them from their bumpers in several wharehouses. There were supposedly about 1,200 cars hanging in wharehouses. Here is a discription of the collection from Mr. Pollard's grandson. "Barney Pollard was my grandfather and the collection of around 1200 cars was my playground as a kid. Know most of the cars,as I personally ***led 700 of them. As to the fire we lost around 110 cars in that fire which was started by a spark from a locomotive which started a gr*** fire and then the building went. Lost some pretty rare cars in the fire, such as the only two Olivers ever built. It is a pretty fascinating story and my grandfather did work hard at keeping the government from destroying all of the cars. My grandfather started collecting in 1938 and kept them parked about his property where he parked his trucks. In flying recon missions around Detroit the government saw what my grandfather had as a treasure trove for materials. The government insisted he give up the cars for the war effort. My grandfather went to Washington in an attempt to make a deal with him. He bought tons of s**** (both steel and aluminum)that they had not discovered and the deal he made was to strip all of the tires and give them all of the s**** he had found and to give up one car a week that he had to deliver to the Ford Rouge plant. My grandfather and Henry Ford were not the best of friends (due to a couple of incidents but one story as he related to the Ford writer David Lewis) as my grandfather laid miles of roadbed for the railroad tracks at the rouge and Ford sent his ***ociate Bennett to intimidate my grandfather into taking less. The problem is that my grandfather was the toughest man I have ever met and in some pretty colorful language I can only ***ume, he told Bennett to take a hike. Long story short my grandfather had many Fords in his collection and so he took over only Fords, one a week for a few weeks and then he stopped. Ford never turned him in as he figured my grandfather would only continue to bring Fords. Then my grandfather decided he had better hide the cars from any more prying eyes so he sunk telephone poles into the ground and put 90 lb railroad rail from post to post and hung the cars from the rail with wire rope. Then he built walls around the buildings and so when you went in the buildings there were hundreds of cars hanging from their front bumpers. Crude but it saved a bunch of cars. Growing up around those cars and all of the good times we had was a treat for a car nut such as myself. Better get to work-JIm"
Did you ever ride on one of those "elevators" in regular parking garages, that were just a wide rubber belt with hoops every 5 ft or so? They were like a vertical conveyor belt. They went from the attendant's level up to the floors above. You'd stand on one hoop and hold the one above. Only the garage jockeys were supposed to use them, but they'd usually let you ride them (before lawyers took over everything).
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bfo80S2kvbY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bfo80S2kvbY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> The sadest day of Wayne and Garth fans is when they tore down that spire...! I've found footage of the one in Tacoma Washington from the 40s. Once rented an old warehouse that was an Edsel Dealership and I had an "Otis" freight elevator to bring the cars to the second floor work bays.
I want to see some pictures of what you are describing James427 if you have some. That was a really interesting bit of history you relayed. That vertical parking that 1-shot slinger posted is really cool, I never even considered that something like that would have ever been built.
They were very common in Japan and other Asian nations when I was there 20+ years ago. Seems we are the last to know on a lot of stuff, eh? Japan also had beer vending machines and movie theaters where you could bring in your own food and drinks from McDonalds or a bento box if you wanted, a**** a zillion other crazy ideas. Gary
I think I found that pic on here a few years ago... the other thread had a present day one in a porsche factory , many stories, and a 360 degree spindle . looked really neat.
You should have tried some of the old warehouse in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Pull in to an elevator with a tractor trailer an go up 6 floors or so and drive down an aisle. Talk about getting nervous, these buildings were OLD!
What's the story of this picture? It looks like brand new but damaged 53 Studebaker bodies going to s****.
It's obviously a train derailment. The crumpled box-car in the middle, the fire truck, even the damage to the car roofs in the back ground matches up with the damaged box-car where they struck each other. My guess is that Studebaker had one plant that made the bodies, then shipped them to another plant [by rail] for ***embly. Notice the car bodies are secured in individual compartments. As to the verticle parking, there are still a few of them in NYC, only they are inside and not exposed to the elements. The one at times square has pictures of when it was "outside" in the waiting area, and it will hold a couple hundred cars. The last time I was there I chatted with one of the attendants. It's still all the original steel structure from the 1940's and only the elevators have been upgraded. He told me a story about back in the 1970's a parked car rolled out and crashed down onto the elevator destroying it, and there were a bunch of cars parked in there they could not get out for a couple weeks while they repaired the damage
It was a train derailment. Studebaker had an ***embly plant in Los Angeles, and they shipped bodies from the main plant in South Bend, Indiana by rail.
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