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[Closed] PIC: This is the parking lot control tower on top of the May Company building in Lakewood Shopping

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(@dickjwa)
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PIC: This is the parking lot control tower on top of the May Company building in Lakewood Shopping

Center in Lakewood, California.

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(@randtheman)
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WOW !!



   
(@100ford2003)
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A little more info. There was parking for almost 10,000 cars so a monitor was able to control a series of lights at each row to indicate wether or not there were spaces available. Pretty forward thinking for the time.



   
Frank Kocour
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They could use that at Walmart so I could find my car.



   
(@jack-dodds)
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Thank god there weren't car alarms back then.....imagine the racket!



   
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