With its decentralized urban areas pollution and mostly inadequate public transit systems America pays a heavy price for its dependency on cars. This volume explores one of the more pressing aspects of the problemstoragefrom 1910 to the end of World War II contrasting the reality and perception of car parking as found in the pages of the popular newspapers and magazines. From early bans on street parking to street widening efforts to the introduction of parking lots garages and parking meters the book chronicles attempts to accommodate the everincreasing number of cars. By failing to effect any meaningful regulations along the way this work shows Americans slowly ceded authority and dominance to the automobile to the detriment of presentday society.