Charles M. Upham Jr., Deputy Director of the Department of Traffic engineering in Baltimore, Maryland, is shown demonstrating a new system called “Sky Parking” on March 6, 1956. The parking lot was located at 5 West Franklin St. in the city and the caption at the left tells us that Upham at the controls has the Oldsmobile halfway up.
This is a much safer solution than the last parking lot system we looked at, which was being tested in Spokane, WA. In that city, they were thinking of using a large fork-lift to place cars on one of three levels of a rack above a car parked on the ground. The Old Motor photo.
I like that the racks have a drip pan, imagine parking your new Cadillac only to have someones older, oil leaking car parked over yours all day…
Bryan, Yes you are right, could you imagine the mess with out them.