Church, Chapel, Elm, and Orange streets are able to accommodate them.
But Center, Temple, Court, and Crown?
Watch out, for the machines are definitely taking over.
Those “machines” are the motor cars coming in greater and greater numbers to New Haven. And they are “multiplying” rapidly because of their speedy movement.
And that’s not the worst of it.
Their operators don’t even know how to park. Why, drivers leave them with their “four wheels, six, nine inches or a foot from the curb.”
The nerve!
For a discussion, or, rather, more like a rant about that eternal New Haven issue — - parking, parking, parking — - as it began to sound a hundred years ago, join me for the latest episode of “This Day In New Haven History.”
There’s also a war going on in a Europe; a schooner sank between New Haven and Milford, and we don’t know what’s become of the captain and four passenger;, and bad weather is making both the Democrats and Republicans hustle in town to get out the vote for mayor and aldermen.
Read all about it as I have a metaphorical cup of java and chat with you while reading the Oct. 5, 1915, New Haven Evening Register from a cozy corner, the Local History Room at the main library.
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