Interesting picture

http://bit.ly/vQ0YC5
Not sure when this was taken, but it has some neat vehicles in it.

Looks like mid to late 70's. Still a bunch of bugs and Vanagons being used as dailys and the American stuff was all universally long and wide.

Bill

Agree as the newest I see is a 74 Olds.
Jim

looks like newest car there is a 1974 amc matador coupe this could be late 73 early 74

I think I saw a 76 Regal.

Krzdimond wrote:

I think I saw a 76 Regal.

I don't see any rectangular headlights in this picture, so it's pre september 74

That photo is from an EPA commissioned documentary project. The description of the parking lot photo is:

Quote :

Cars were jammed even more than usual into every spare space at a downtown commercial parking lot during a bus strike in Washington, D.C., in May 1974. Some 250,000 people were forced to find alternate forms of transportation. Monumental traffic jams resulted as drivers learned there were more cars than legal places to park. (Jim Pickerell/NARA)

Isn't that where George Costanza parks his car?

Be fun to try to get your car out of the lot after work if you'd parked in the middle... Hahahaha!

Some neat cars in there. Bet that was no fun for the drivers of those.

Olds Weighty Eight wrote:

That photo is from an EPA commissioned documentary project. The description of the parking lot photo is:

Quote :

Cars were jammed even more than usual into every spare space at a downtown commercial parking lot during a bus strike in Washington, D.C., in May 1974. Some 250,000 people were forced to find alternate forms of transportation. Monumental traffic jams resulted as drivers learned there were more cars than legal places to park. (Jim Pickerell/NARA)

Good link. Thanks.

81X11 wrote:

Be fun to try to get your car out of the lot after work if you'd parked in the middle... Hahahaha!

Some neat cars in there. Bet that was no fun for the drivers of those.

That's one of those old school controlled lots where you would stop at the parking botth, get out of the car let the attendant park the car for you. You had to let them know what time you were expecting to leave, and they parked the car in accordance to when they expect you to pick it up. Complicated peg board system in the parking booth where all the keys were kept. As you can imagine it had it's glitches but worked well enough at the time.

Looks like the church parking lot after 11:00 mass

Would the owner of the blue four door report to the parking lot, your lights are on.