A SKYSCRAPER GARAGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 456, 11 September 1928, Page 18

A SKYSCRAPER GARAGE

New York’s Latest

Recently we read of the skyscraper church, and now comes the skyscraper garage. It is, the Christian. Science “Monitor” tells us, under construction in New York in one of the most i crowded parts of Manhattan, between 43rd and 44th Streets, to the east of 3rd Avenue. This garage, which will be open in *

December next, will have 24 storeys. It will he the first of a series of several others forming a chain, and which will be administered following the system already in use in many cities so far as trading-houses and hotels are concerned. In the new garage it wiU be as simple to park a car as to leave one’s overcoat or hat in a waiting room. The driver will stop at the entrance of the

garage before a lift doorway, cut off “the juice,” receive a receipt, and . . . that is all there is to it. Before he will have arrived at his office the car will be neatly parked with hundreds of others, to be called for when it suits him. From the moment when the cardriver has left his seat a garage attendant, a “parker,” will take com-

plete charge of his car. Raised by an electrically-operated machine, the car will be silently and rapidly placed on an elevator and lifted like a flash to the storey indicated on the receipt form. All this will take but a few minutes. When the car-owner returns to claim his vehicle all this mechanism will function in the reverse order, and the car, ready to start, will reappear in the doorway of the garage.