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Object Lesson #44

by Stephen Kobasa | December 29, 2009 11:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

parking lot booth
ca. 1935

Kirk’s Parking
210 Crown Street, between College and Temple

Roofed with tin masquerading as tile, in one of the oldest surviving open parking lots in New Haven, this serviceable cottage has something of a decadent Munchkin sensibility about it.

There is a more regal shelter in a similar establishment behind Louis’ Lunch, but it is prissy with awnings. This is the real thing, battered , with a vintage pre-Helvetica “PARK” sign across from it, lacking only a 1948 Ford sedan pulled up alongside for the full noir effect.

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Posted by: East Rockette | January 7, 2010 10:36 PM

Perhaps it is just the colour scheme and the double fillip on the rooftop (invisible dolphins poised thereupon) , but I look at this and see a Japanese castle, in miniature.

Thank you, as always, for the chance to look more closely at things we see every day without really seeing at all. What a gift.

Posted by: Volvo | January 8, 2010 9:44 AM

I use this lot every monday to go see Kung Fu at Stella Blues...Stella's is the red brick in the background.

I like this lot because the attendant is always monitoring the cars...probably because the booth is so small he can only fit by the doorway!

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