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.

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.

My write-up of this day on Intentionally Lost

It was pretty sweet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

About two inches to spare here...

With some finesse, you can plop this thing into a 16 foot space, but really you’re going to need at least a 20 foot spot, especially if you don’t have the rearview camera.

The DC Guesthouse

1337 10th St NW

Washington, DC 20001

www.dcguesthouse.com/

I hope nothing stomach-turningly awful has ever happened in the building, but with so many people moving through over so many decades, I suppose it's unrealistic to hope that.

My heart is warmed in a uniquely individual way by each of the individual "Celebrate Racine" lamppost banners hung on lampposts all around downtown: The pleasure of seeing one "Celebrate Racine" banner is special unto itself, and is distinct from the pleasure of seeing any other "Celebrate Racine" banner on any other lamppost.

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, "The Lucius," now known as the "Proost," built 1905, a "contributing property" in the Historic Sixth Street Historic District, 88000263 on the National Register of Historic Places, at the northwest corner of 7th Street (Wisconsin highways 20 and 32) and College Avenue.

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"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.

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.

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

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.

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

...capture the Temple Terrace Golf & Country Club

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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I totally rock the parallel

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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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.

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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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.

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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"Yep, looks like the U.S. midwest!" we exclaim happily in unison as we walk side-by-side.

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In downtown Defiance, Ohio, on October 15th, 2022, 5th Street as viewed to the west from the northwest corner of its intersection with Perry Street.

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Minigolf at the National Building Museum

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.