should be explored. Parking garages come in all shapes and sizes, why not one that floats?We have casinos, office buildings, hotels – why not a garage? I’m sure there are issues, but there always are.


Gossip, Golf, Gossip It’s the national sport of the park-


ing industry, and the IPI is no excep- tion. About 100 folks, many of whom are vendors, ventured to the local links to get in a fast 18 the morning before the show opened. It was a shotgun start with a


scramble format. If you don’t know what that means, you probably aren’t interested in this anyway. Suffice it to say that everyone gets to start and fin- ish about the same time, and that it makes it more fair and fun for the best and worst of the players. I spoke to a lot of friends there; I


wasn’t able to play ‘cuz I was back blogging, but I did get some good conversations. John Millet over at Austin


Mohawk was telling me that business is good. I asked how he could sell on the West Coast when he builds his booths in NewYork. He said that it is strange but not unusual for BIG to install a booth near his office in New York and for him to install one in Southern California near BIG. He also said that a lot of the busi-


ness is going to homeland security. Prices for those booths could exceed 100K. Of course, he added, it had a lot of toys in it. Tim Morris fromWPS was stand-


ing there and looked at me when the 100K number came up. Heh, can you imagine putting in a bid with a booth that cost one hundred thousand – wow! Frank DelMonico was there from


Laz Parking, and we were commiserat- ing about the problems with the meter system in Chicago. He laughed and said that someone had a sense of humor.They got the contract on Friday the 13th and had to have a rate increase onApril Fool’s Day. He said that they had taken over


only four hours when the city started to complain. I’m glad someone in that group kept their sense of humor. All the regulars were there, such


as JoeWilson and Bob Kane from Fed- eral,TomWunk from S&B, Derek Kiley


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from WPS, Peter Young from Digital Printing, and the normal cast of 1,000s that play golf, have fun, and then tell lies about their game for the next year. In years past, I have been fortunate to be in a foursome that won an award, that’s of “Most Honest.” Sigh ...


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