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Finding night parking space to begin with is probably a more difficult proposition with no Indoor Athletic Building equivalent to house the overflow. And instead of inviting side streets to serve the penny-pinching motorist, he will find 141 new parking meter poles cropping up along Garden, Holyoke, Dunster, Plympton, and Linden Streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garageless Car Owners Find No Welcome Mats | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Unencumbered. In St. Joseph. Mo., police pulled in Motorist Sherman Ethridge for driving around town with: 1) no lights, 2) no reverse gear, 3) no starter, 4) no brakes, 5) no registration, insurance nor driver's license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Aftereffect. In Oakland, Calif., motorist James Wallace swerved to avoid one auto, sideswiped another, crashed through a heavy guard rail, careened down a 200-ft. embankment, landed in a tree, still unhurt climbed out and surveyed the damage, was conked on the head and knocked out by a falling boulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Cause & Effect. In White Plains, N.Y., a cop handed Motorist Louis Mazaferro a ticket for speeding at 54 m.p.h.; when Mazaferro nervously dashed away at 58 m.p.h., the cop caught him and handed him another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Heavy Weather. In Belle Isle, Mich., Motorist Kenneth Blue concluded that the rain was getting much too heavy when his wiper failed to keep water off the windshield, stepped out to investigate, had to swim ashore from the 10 ft. deep lagoon into which he had driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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