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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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 <a href="http://www.digital-images.net/Images/Japan/Himeji_view_0523.jpg" rel="nofollow">Japanese castle</a>, in <a href="http://www.digital-images.net/Images/Japan/HimejiCastle_Tsukimi_Yagura_0565.jpg" rel="nofollow">miniature</a>.
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.