Meanwhile I feel confident that the recessed doorway is from the 20th century.

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In downtown Defiance, Ohio, on October 15th, 2022, a building on the north side of 5th Street, west of Clinton Street, in the Defiance Downtown Historic District (100005021 on the National Register of Historic Places). The building is from 1888, according to the Defiance County Auditor's property search website.

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Even when you align the camera perfectly parallel to the object behind you, the camera deceives you into thinking you are closer to the behind object than actual reality: there’s usually 5 to 6 inches more room than what the camera shows on the screen.

Needless to say, lots of honking ensued as drivers in the right-hand lane were forced to swerve slightly to get around the honda's ass sticking out into traffic. His front bumper was at least 16 inches away from the curb. And no, his blinkers weren't on.

Parked outside were a 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander, a 2014 Ford Taurus, and a 2024 Toyota Rav4 Hybrid. All of them were mine at the time, but I have since sold the Outlander.

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At Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, were the Watterson Towers, a/k/a the Watterson Residence Hall, completed circa 1969, at the northwest corner of West Beaufort Street and South Fell Avenue.

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The DC Guesthouse

1337 10th St NW

Washington, DC 20001

www.dcguesthouse.com/

On gameday, the streets around the university are filled with parked cars of football fans.

Online real estate and apartment search websites variously state that the building was built in 1952 or 1959. Based on a search of city directories at ancestrylibrary.com, I think 1959 is correct.

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In San Diego, California, on July 2nd, 2024, in the Ocean Beach neighborhood, was 4990 Del Monte Ave, the Aristocrat Apartments, at the northeast corner of Del Monte Avenue and Bacon Street.

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...capture the Temple Terrace Golf & Country Club

I totally rock the parallel

My Buddy Noel took this shot last December with his awesome point and shoot, Panasonic LX3.

Ganz neu auf dem BMW-Motorrad Treff heuer war die MINI Stund Show von Russ Swift.

Russ Swift hält den Weltrekord im Parallelparken und hat das auch eindrucksvoll vorgeführt.

Eine geniale Show mit einem sympathischen Briten und einem tollen Auto.

we went to folklife and i was so impressed with my parallel parking. it was perfectly executed and enabled us to be hecka close to seattle center.

Our newspaper had a cover story about people not quite being able to park against the curb. For those people who never quite learned, they decided to include direction on how to do it. I come from a state that has it as a required part of the driver's exam.

A tune you should hum while you look at the building is "Over the Waves," which is from 1888, the same year the building was built.

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In downtown Wheeling, West Virginia, on December 23rd, 2019, the Unruh Building (1125-27 Main St., built 1888, a "contributing property" in the Wheeling Historic District, 79002597 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the west side of Main Street (West Virginia Route 2) between 11th Street and 12th Street.

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Ganz neu auf dem BMW-Motorrad Treff heuer war die MINI Stund Show von Russ Swift.

Russ Swift hält den Weltrekord im Parallelparken und hat das auch eindrucksvoll vorgeführt.

Eine geniale Show mit einem sympathischen Briten und einem tollen Auto.

yeah, I've got skills with the parking. these are my summer wheels.

The main thing we should remember is "We ought to stay off the ladders unless there's a fire. They're not to play on."

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In downtown Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, the Andresen Building (built in 1900 according to the date stones above each door) at the northwest corner of West 3rd Street and Western Avenue, a "contributing property" in the West Third Street Historic District, 83003741 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Minigolf at the National Building Museum

Get into your white Honda Ridgeline and do a u-turn and swing over here and pick me up and drive me away.

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In downtown Defiance, Ohio, on October 15th, 2022, Fort Defiance Antiques on the west side of Clinton Street (Ohio State Route 111), south of West 3rd Street, in the Defiance Downtown Historic District (100005021 on the National Register of Historic Places).

There's a building from circa 1890 in there, according to the Defiance County Auditor's property search website.

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View On Black

A helpless Volkswagen Cabriolet is stuck between two cars.

"Before" pictures of an area that will receive widened sidewalks (widening into the parking lane) as part of DDOT's upcoming first phase U Street Reconstruction.

Our building has salmon-colored paint and a comically tall false front.

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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, 217 N Union St (built sometime between 1915-1920), a "contributing property" in the Downtown Danville Historic District (93000830 on the National Register of Historic Places), on the west side of North Union Street between High Street and Spring Street.

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Imagine it is 1952 and you are so wound up you are irrepressibly prancing, excited to see the latest: a 16-story banktower of brownish orange bricks, with dozens of greenstone spandrels.

From 2002 to circa 2021 this was called the "Oncor Building" in honor of an electric company, but I chose to call it the "On-Cor Building" in honor of the U.S.-based brand of discount frozen foods. On-Cor sells big microwaveable multi-serve trays of chicken parmagiana patties, salisbury steak patties, things like that.

The surface materials are "rust-toned Denton brick" and "Virginia greenstone."

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In downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on February 12th, 2023, "115 W. 7th" (built in 1951-1952 as the Fort Worth National Bank Building, later known as the Electric Service Building and the Oncor Building, designed by Preston M. Geren, 100008197 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of West 7th Street and Houston Street, as viewed from the northwest corner of West 7th Street and Throckmorton Street.

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It means that the Sequoya Branch of the Madison Public Library has been a big hit since it reopened about a year ago in its new quarters in Sequoya Commons.

The bad news is the parking lot is almost always full, and cars have to circle and wait for someone else to leave the busy parking lot -- making it an interesting laboratory for studying human nature and how it affects parking behavior. See Letter from Here.

Yell the year of a funny-looking building then laugh. Do it!

Lol I heard you love brownish orange brick veneer and half circles inside triangles.

Ugh but this building contains a Southern Baptist law school. Run away as fast as you can!

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In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th, 2023, an office building from 1986, occupied since 2009 by the Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, at the northeast corner of South Dawson Street (U.S. routes 70 and 401 and North Carolina Highway 50) and West Morgan Street.

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I thought this parking job, just across from Kerry Park in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, was absolutely awesome. Brazen, ignorant and atrocious at the same time.