Project Gutenberg 2023-03-26 Public domain in the USA. 98 Loomis, Noel M. 1905 1969 Loomis, Noel Miller Miller, Benj. Water, Silas Parking, unlimited $aUnited States :$bColumbia Publications, Inc., $c1950. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Parking, Unlimited" by Noel M. Loomis is a science fiction story written in the early 1950s. The narrative centers around a unique and ambitious plan to solve the urban parking crisis by utilizing a revolutionary technology that can shrink cars down to just a few inches in size. The protagonists, Slim and the narrator, aim to create a profitable parking enterprise in a busy city area, but their innovative venture spirals out of control when their secret is threatened. The story follows the duo as they start by renting an old garage and implementing Slim's extraordinary invention to reduce car sizes significantly, allowing them to park thousands of vehicles in an otherwise limited space. As business booms and their financial prospects grow, they attract unwanted attention, culminating in a chaotic and humorous confrontation with the building inspector and a mob of angry customers. Ultimately, the plan takes a perilous turn when their secret is jeopardized, forcing them to flee just as they are on the verge of achieving great success. Through its comedic premise and imaginative technology, "Parking, Unlimited" explores themes of ambition, ingenuity, and the unpredictable nature of entrepreneurial endeavors. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220528130900loomis 1950 US Reading ease score: 84.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Inventions -- Fiction Parking garages -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Humour 46867 2025-06-28T04:13:44.142810 text/html 46018 2023-03-26T14:38:06 text/html 382488 2025-06-28T04:13:47.131815 application/epub+zip 381258 2025-06-28T04:13:45.404763 application/epub+zip 163003 2025-06-28T04:13:44.618816 application/epub+zip 940086 2025-06-28T04:13:48.373772 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 932703 2025-06-28T04:13:46.650810 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 39873 2025-06-28T04:13:43.995774 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 39614 2023-03-26T14:38:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18789 2025-06-28T04:13:48.498732 application/rdf+xml 31673 2025-06-28T04:13:44.986812 image/jpeg 5387 2025-06-28T04:13:44.799796 image/jpeg 15193 2023-03-26T14:38:07 application/octet-stream application/zip 1872671 2023-03-26T14:38:07 application/octet-stream application/zip 1878912 2025-06-28T04:13:44.165861 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia