When Downtown DC Really Was a Parking Lot

Think They Had to Feed the Meters?

You think parking's bad in D.C. these days? Check out this photo, recently released by the National Archives, of cars wedged into just about every available inch near downtown during a bus strike in May 1974. (Thanks to The Atlantic for combing through the set and highlighting this photo.)

When Downtown D.C. Really Was a Parking Lot was originally published by Washington City Paper on Nov. 16, 2011.

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