Beautiful Spot - the Art of Parking

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About Beautiful Spot - the Art of Parking

Honoring both great cars and skillful parallel parking.

Named to Honor Beautiful Spot, Calvin Trillin's 1964 1-issue magazine. Here's a mention of the magazine from USA TODAY in 2002:

As a young writer at Time in 1962, he and some friends joked about starting Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking. After Art Buchwald mentioned the idea in his column, Trillin says, "We were embarrassed. We decided we'd better put out a magazine."

The first issue, six typewritten, mimeographed pages, appeared in March 1962. (The main story complained about the number of parking spots lost to fire hydrants.) It sold for 25 cents, brought in $17 and, "to set an example for publishers, we spent all the profits on a staff party."

And that was the only issue of the magazine? "Well, put it this way," Trillin says, "the second issue hasn't come out yet." He blames "production difficulties," which, as he puts it, "tend to snowball."