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Hold That Parking Spot!

posted by Jason Kottke   Feb 09, 2022

In major US metropolitan areas like Boston and Chicago that see significant winter snowfall, there's a tradition of saving one's shoveled-out street parking space with an object or objects that indicate to others that they should park elsewhere. After a big January storm, the Chicago Tribune posted a collection of photos of the best "parking dibs" in the city.

a toy car parked in a shoveled-out parking spot

a crutch and a milkcrate placed in a shoveled-out parking spot

See also The Pittsburgh Parking Chair.