#PARKING METERS

[hclib]

Parking Meters Subjected to Rigorous Tests to Determine Ability to Withstand Minneapolis Weather

While the Minneapolis City Council contemplated an ordinance for installation of parking meters along the curbs of city streets in July 1936, members of the city's engineering department put a selection of meters through a series of rigorous tests. How would they stand up to the varied climatic conditions of Minneapolis, where temperatures range from -34 to 108? Above, Ralph Springman and Vurn Johnson check results after freezing the parking meters at an ice cream plant. 10 parking meters manufactured by five companies were included in the tests which included freezing, baking, sand blasting, and drenching with water.

The results of the test? The parking meters couldn't take it. All of the meters developed mechanical defects when subjected to 120-degree heat, minus 6-degree cold, swirling dust and sand, slug and coin insertions and timing tests.

This caused some delay, but in August 1936, the city ok'd installation anyway. But then parking meter battles ensued. Bids were rejected, the ordinance came under fire and motorists rebelled. Minneapolis's first parking meter wouldn't be installed until April 4, 1940.

See more photos of the testing in the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

[fotographee]

yeah, i go to shows: beetlejuice the musical edition

shea’s buffalo

march 24, 2023 // 7:02 \ 7:03 \ 7:06 PM

click for higher resolution >:)

[breezingby]

88 years ago...

On This Date: July 16, 1935 The very first parking meter makes its debut in Oklahoma City. Designed by Carl Magee - it was hoped meters would ease traffic congestion... (Ha !)

[timaeuslover001]

onto the next protest:

beaches parking meters

TOLL ROADS!

NO PRIVATE BEACHES

[wack-ashimself]

China owns the USA.

Here's 2 fun facts that should shock you back into WTF is actually going on:

1-A Chinese company has a contract to own every-single-parking meter in Chicago.

2-A Chinese company just bought enough stocks/property to own ONE THIRD of the pork market.

And the USA government ALLOWED all this to happen...so quit acting like they aren't all in it together. NO country (even ours) should own land outside its' borders. Yes, even fucking military bases.

[jefkphotography]

Digital parking meter display, in The Netherlands.

[pseuddamntired]

I just learned who owns Chicago’s parking meters. I’m sad now.

Go watch Climate Town’s video on this so you, too, can be sad (but informed and better defended).

[puexii]

Kit meets a cat somewhere in the forest by the big wall surrounding Orizon

The wall is supposed to be ginormous, like 50 floors high ginormous. Might've made it look a bit too small 💥

Really proud of this one, even tho i made it some months ago

Also this was actually a redraw of some older art i did, will put it under the cut

It was originally for a dtiys I made on insta

The improvement,,, woag

(Old: 21 oct 2022, new: 25 jan 2024)

[thepunkranger]

I’m reading #1 of the Resident Evil books, Umbrella Conspiracy, and I forgot that (at least in this timeline) Jill is the daughter and protege of a professional thief

And apparently agreed to join STARS partially because it was a way to “clean up her act” and stay out of prison

Which is cool lore in and of itself, but ALSO where is my Jill/Carlos fic with them finding out that they both wound up wrapped up in this shit because they both figured it was an easy way to go straight and avoid prison/the death penalty???

[burinazar]

Birthday Completed.. Am Thirtey Twoe

[fucksurass]

PIP BOOPS YOU

Dont look under the cut. If you know whats good for you.

HE BOOPS YOU 5000000 TIMES

[vintagepromotions]

'Starve a meter.'

London Underground poster (1987).

[florenceisfalling]

the furious, quick-foot flow of time

cannot be stopped by song or rhyme

nor mournful thought of yesteryear

subdued by mind's cheap souvenirs

yet as i lay me down to sleep

i've got my promises to keep

so happy birthday unto me

make this one gentle, finally

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

What the food pantry on campus does:

- gives me snacks and drinks to supplement my regular groceries, breakfast stuff, maybe ingredients for 1-2 actual meals

What the food pantry is really bad at doing:

- giving me food I can make into proper meals for the week

Oh you want juice? Here’s 2 little juice boxes. Nothing else; they’re limited. You want pasta sauce? 1 can; limited. You want produce? 2 produce item limit, except for the apples which are starting to spoil. You can have all of those. You want frozen chicken? One container only. Oh, they’re all stuck together and frozen? Sorry, you can’t have two; no chicken, I guess. Pasta? One box only. Rice? Two small bags, max. Breakfast bars? Yeahhhh, those are a snack, and you can only have five snacks, total. But if you put those pop tarts back, you could have some! Oh, you want donuts instead? Sure! But that’s a bakery item, and you can only have one baked good, so you’re gonna need to put that bread back. You want ziploc bags? Here, have two. Not two boxes, two bags. Item limits. Sorry. You can come back next week!

How the fuck are people supposed to actually *use* these things for weekly meal planning if there’s not enough to last a week???

I swear I am grateful for these resources I’m sure they’re doing the best they can with what they have I’m just *frustrated*. I’m trying to spend less on groceries bc I can’t really afford them. It’s nice that the food pantry gives me these small portions to last me a couple days. But that still leaves several days with not enough food unless I’m really creative or go grocery shopping, and I simply do not have the energy or time to be really creative.

[syn4k]

earlier today i misspelled "playlist" as "platylist" and i instantly went "a playlist? PERRY THE PLAYLIST???" and made myself laugh so hard i spit out my snack. so at least ive got that going for me

[ray4youknow]