from helping his dad in the shop during summers, to 4 years at McPherson, then a decade in LA working on Ferrari, to taking over his dad's ship in Yonkers... your coffee and donuts video of the day. And he's hiring

I just found out that the parking garage in the grand palace theater in Detroit, wasn't the only parking garage in an old palace theater

State theatre, West Orange, New Jersey. It's been renovated back into a theater now. 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/may/11/fade-to-black-inside-us-abandoned-cinemas-movie-theaters

when it comes to bridges, what is more unusual and rare, then a cast iron private one, over a public street, in a major city? Oh, and it's got a 3 car garage. Except no one wants to live there, everyone only wants to flip it

The 118-year-old bridge, which picturesquely hovers above a cobblestone street that was a private access lane to the horse stables of wealthy Hudson Street residents in the early 1800s, connects a landmarked four-story mansion with a private 1,200-square-foot rooftop terrace to a loft across the street. 

The landmarked property also features a private three-car garage — and more than 4,000 square feet of air rights.

 

the 1907 townhouse on the west side of the bridge – 9 Jay – was originally the carriage house for the building on the east side of it – 67 Hudson – which, when it was built in 1900, was a branch of the New York Hospital. 

Ambulances pulled into the Jay Street building and patients were taken upstairs and across the bridge to the hospital.

The previous owners (billionaire real estate types) bought it in 2022 for $20 million and figured someone else will pay more if this gets better publicity, so they've listed it for a 10 million dollar mark up at $29.95M. 

Before that, it languished on the market for years. It was first listed in 2015 by an American fashion designer from the ‘90s who bought 9 Jay (which came with the bridge) in 1985 for $499,000, in a bidding war with Andy Warhol.

He then bought 3A and 3B at 67 Hudson for $300,000, combining those two apartments and completing the connection to the townhouse. 

the New York Hospital built the impressive structure at 67 Hudson a decade before hospital administrators decided that a separate building was needed for a laundry and the horse-drawn ambulances that clattered about the cobblestone streets to meet all emergencies. 

The hospital put up the three-story structure across Staple Street and linked the two buildings with the cast iron bridge.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9-Jay-St-New-York-NY-10013/31494276_zpid/?

https://tribecatrib.com/content/story-tribecas-skybridge-landmark-centerpiece-24-million-sale

https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/real-estate/tribeca-compound-connected-by-a-famed-skybridge-asks-30m/

https://tribecacitizen.com/2025/11/18/staple-street-skybridge-is-for-sale-again/

https://citydays.com/places/staple-street-skybridge/

I've never seen tire weaving before, you probably haven't either. Another incredible repair by guys in India or Pakistan - they are the most amazing mechanics - doing everything without technology, and doing it GREAT

 

the coolest garage you'll see this month, the Egyptian, originally built as a street car electrical substation, it was remodeled into the Egyptian Garage in 1925

notice the upper windows are still cool

along the East side

Of course, it's a liquor store now

https://www.johnfry.com/pages/PhotoSanDiego112.html

just because the truck was retired, doesn't mean that tool box bed doesn't have decades of use left! Now it's cut off the truck, cleaned up, and going to be a garage workbench / tool storage

This tool box was mounted in the bed on 2 different service trucks for over a decade. 

It ain't done earning a living, not by a long shot. The trucks? They just wore out. Tool boxes are built better than trucks. 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=32321839314129370&set=gm.1123122383055141&idorvanity=483964356970950

Facebook Service Trucks page https://www.facebook.com/groups/483964356970950/

a great Halloween idea from the Daily Timewaster blog

 

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-home-owners-association-loves-this.html

Kid Galahad (1962) with Elvis Presley at the Idyllwild Garage in Idyllwild, CA... then and now

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10228281723540244&set=gm.2238800756583306&idorvanity=405517713244962

The owner of a Windsor Ontario auto repair shop believes labor is one of the biggest challenges facing the auto repair sector, which is why they've built the shop they have, to attract workers of all abilities and backgrounds to service station careers

the new owners invested nearly $1 million to upgrade the operation to include full digital integration, new self-operating equipment, and other features to reduce physical strain and support technicians of all abilities.

"To be able to actually bring in students through our door and show them the stereotypes they may have, about what independent shops look like, isn't really true," she says. "Look at our shop; it's clean, it's technologically advanced, and there are components that are light on the body. There is a lot more of using your mind now with vehicles than actually using your bodies."

"Our biggest challenge is labor, and that's why we've built the shop we've built-to be able to attract all people of all abilities and all backgrounds. We have great partnerships in the community where we're constantly bringing in tours, showing students and young people and parents, that shops exist that are clean and friendly environments where they can thrive and grow," she says.

"We invested our money back into our community, and also, with the way our industry is going, we as a young couple were able to continue a legacy and allow Windsor-Essex to still have an option to go to an independent local business but with service that is elevated and totally transparent," she says.

https://www.am800cklw.com/news/labour-one-of-the-biggest-challenges-facing-auto-repair-sector-says-windsor-auto-shop-owner.html

brilliant way to stand out from all the competitors, have a humorous way of appealing to new customers

 

my sister just met a really cool woman who has some really cool stuff, a model t axle built Lazy Susan kitchen table she got from a saloon, and her grandfather's garage time card punch clock!

These are just examples that are similar. I asked my sister to get photos of both the clock, the time card (because the woman actually worked at the garage for her family, and kept a time card) and the axle based lazy susan table from a saloon, along with more of THAT table's history! I asked her to either get photos, or get me that woman's phone number or email! 

want to see just how close I came to my garage door crashing down on my car?

that's probably 1/16th of an inch, maybe 1/8th. 

That's part of the door hinge mechanism

cool Mopar garage! Spare parts and nice cars!

https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/372430912477849/?media_id=1&ref=share_attachment

an inert Cold War-era rocket of the type used to carry a nuclear warhead has been found in a garage in Washington state. How's that for the strangest thing you've ever hear of found in a garage?

Bomb squad members inspected the rusting object and found it was a Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1), an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5 kiloton W25 nuclear warhead. There was no warhead attached and there was no rocket fuel — “essentially meaning that the item was an artifact with no explosive hazard.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-inert-cold-war-era-missile-found-garage-106923439

https://www.live5news.com/2024/02/04/inert-nuclear-missile-found-garage-washington-state-home-police-say/

100 year old mail order catalog Model T garage

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227733851669839&set=pcb.1403558876891697

https://searshomes.org/index.php/2011/10/17/sears-pre-cut-kit-garages-a-dandy-place-for-your-automobile/

can confirm, this is accurate in my garage

I rent a garage for 150 a month. I wish I were paying for one instead, because if my math is right, I've spent about 22000 over the past 22 years, to store my old beast R/T safely out of sun, rain, and the sight of anyone that would do it harm (graffiti taggers, thieves, assholes who would steal parts) and to store my tools. 

It also doubled as a place to pack all my stuff into when I moved out of my apartment and thought that living on a yacht for the low cost of a boat payment that was 1/2 of what my rent had been, would be not just pleasant, because a 46 foot Chris Craft is a mighty fine yacht, and San Diego Bay is a very vacation like place to enjoy the breeze off the Pacific.. but that was 3 years until the city changed the laws on the anchorage, and suddenly, I no longer had a yacht to live on, nor an apartment. 

I found a gallery of WW2 civilian efforts, like the scrap drives, victory gardens, etc

Dorothy Lamour in Boston for war bond drive

Victory Garden on a garage

but I'd never learned (until this moment) that cities changed their parks to Victory Gardens! That was not mentioned in the history books I had in high school

all the iron fences were dismantled, even at the state house, and the Governor took the time to make a photo op

shows how Boston Commons looked after the fences were removed

I added these to illustrate the other unknown efforts of the civilians to use every resource to add to the scrap drives... in ways I've never learned of before

and this one surprised me the most, a Checker Taxi fleet parked and the tires removed for the rubber to get used by the military

and I'd never heard of the license plate recycling effort

and I think this is extremely interesting, one of 17 War of 1812 cannons, used as bollards and street edging at the Boston Navy Yard, pulled out and turned in for WW2 scrap. Wow. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/albums/72157627973175543/page5

wow, hell of a big service bay. 1932 Goodyear service station, San Francisco.

 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/images-of-vintage-gas-stations-pre-65.1033288/page-6

https://www.shorpy.com/node/19057?size=_original#caption

The garage area had two pits where gas fumes would settle, creating a fire hazard. Pits were banned and grease monkeys began to use hoists in the new service garages.  The "large round thing cast in concrete" was probably an exhaust fan with an explosionproof motor.

a garage at a race track, for vintage racing. I love it

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225406368653372&set=pcb.10225406389053882

very cool repair shop photo

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220705224400700&set=a.1617402035143  via https://stefanmarjoram.com/ 

that's the Beast of Turin of course