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GETTING AROUND

Continued from page 2 A Torrance, California, correspondent writes to tell us about Virgil Houghland's unusual occupation. Mr. Houghland, it seems, spends his time scouting the sidewalks near parking meters and picking up stray coins dropped by careless motorists. Mr. Houghland, who calls himself the "King of the Parking Meters," once spent three months around Tucson, Arizona, raking through the dirt under 21,000 meters, and made $425. • • We're pleased to note that Tight-squeeze, Virginia, is Tightsqueeze once more. The town got its name a long time ago from farmers who said it would be a "tight squeeze" if their horses could pull tobacco-laden wagons over the steep hill where the community is located. A few months ago the name was changed to Fairview because a local official thought the old name was ugly. The people didn't agree, and protested so effectively the name has been changed back to familiar, comfortable Tightsqueeze. • • Brown Deer, Wisconsin's, Assistant Village Manager Andrew Damon and Trustee Robert Vandamme have suggested, informally, that the community hire women—not for the purpose of checking on parking-meter violations but to read water meters. They want to call them mermaids. When the position of janitor at tne Manchester, Connecticut, post office fell vacant, all applicants had to fulfill a government requirement that they be able to lift a sandbag weighing 125 pounds. In tests at the post office, 49 men failed to lift the bag. The only man who passed the test hurled the sandbag away and announced: "I don't want the job n ." • • Boasting about his record, the Police Chief in Oak Cliff, Texas, said: "The vice situation in Oak Cliff is the best I've seen it in a long time." • • One enterprising supermarketeer in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, has put in little brushes at the entrance to his store that pop up as you enter and brush off the soles of your shoes. Keeps the store a lot cleaner, he says, and we think it might be a great idea—particularly during these wet, sloshy February days—for someone to invent an adaptation for the entrances of the houses of all small, busy children. • • A sign on the door of a Brentwood, California, music shop reads: "Out to lunch. Usually Bach by [?] Offenbach earlier." • • A parking lot near Burbank, California, has a special section for small cars, called "The Nursery."

SUBURBIA TODAY "She broke her favorite paring knife!" dave gerard

4 Suburbia Today, February 1962