The parking chairs of Pittsburgh

Rob Beschizza 8:17 am Wed Jan 8, 2020

I've lived in Pittsburgh a clear decade now and the phenomenon of parking chairs is one of the most charming local oddities. Here's a video from Dean Bog about the parking chairs.

Yinz can't park here.

Parking in The Strip shortly after moving to town, I gently shunted a parking chair to make space only for local pedestrians and stallkeepers to crowd around and yell at me like I'd run over a puppy. I backed out of the spot and a man carefully moved the chair back into position, glaring at me all the while.

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