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The school that used to be right here, now a parking lot. The ornate hotel that used to be over there, also a parking lot. In the 1960s and '70s, preservation and destruction had traveled hand in hand, with the destructive forces usually just a little bit swifter. "There was a parking lot panic," Jim says. "The suburbs were booming. The town thought it had to fight back with places to park."

“It doesn’t take more than a couple of days for the walker to become condescending toward cars. You know that a human is driving but lose the feel that someone inside has a single thought of you, the roadside apparition.”