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It's nearly high noon on a sunny spring day!

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, the curve of 2nd Street to Wisconsin Avenue as viewed from the north side of a bridge on State Street (Wisconsin Highway 38).

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parallel parking win.

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The Municipal Code of Chicago explicitly describes this as a legal way to park one's bike.

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with this job of parking. This is why having a small car is nice, the street it littered with unusably small parking spots like this.

Done super successfully and with minimal panicking (a friend was waiting for me so there was no time to cry that this was the only space available).

(VIEW LARGE SIZE TO SEE THE ANIMATION) First attempt of Russ Swift for this stunt. His bluff to scare me more!

He did eventually get extracted.

At least 3.5 feet from the curb.

The Fusion was parked just around the corner. It's always challenging to find a spot downtown, and parallel parking can be particularly tricky for me. I love the rear camera that beeps when the car is close to another object!

You really can fit two of them in one parking space.

Back clearance.

We thought we'd be sly and mark where the cones are meant to go on the parking lot to make the parallel parking space and then the security guard came and ran us off. Bummer.

The king of parallel parking shows how its done

In Olde Towne Portsmouthe an '85 Forde Mustange.

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In downtown Portsmouth, Virginia, on October 13th, 2023, on the west side of Dinwiddie Street between Glasgow Street and London Street, in the Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District, 70000877 and 83004251 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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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 busy streets of downtown...where the parking is insane but its worth the trip!

Looking north from Calle San Francisco.

They are nice homes.

My picture is from 2019, when the building was 79 years old. Famous artist Ed Ruscha took a picture of the building in 1974, when it was 34 years old. He returned in 2007, when it was 67 years old. By then the DENTIST sign had been installed.

According to G. Streetview, the solar panel was installed on the streetlight in 2016 or 2017.

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In Los Angeles, California, on April 24th, 2019, a building on the north side of Santa Monica Boulevard (built 1940) between North Kingsley Drive and North Ardmore Avenue.

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manila international autoshow 2008

"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.

Taken from the top of a wall

My parallel parking skills are becoming, well, amazing.

manila international autoshow 2008

manila international autoshow 2008

manila international autoshow 2008

In downtown New London, Connecticut, on September 21st, 2021, Boston ivy/Japanese creeper (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) on a utility pole on the east side of Green Street between State Street and Golden Street, in the Downtown New London Historic District, 79002665 and 88000070 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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manila international autoshow 2008

manila international autoshow 2008