Bottle caps

Bottle caps are the indestructible kings of junk in old country bar and country store parking lots. They get embedded in the blacktop and stick around for decades. Sometimes there are hundreds of them, some still with a little of their paint, but most burnished black by years of traffic and weather. These were on a concrete lot in front of a taco joint and are probably not very old.

ID		130008
Object		Bottle cap
Material		Steel, paint
Dimensions		25mm
Provenance		Dallas, Texas
Credit Line		The Museum of Parking Lot Junk

Tire weight

One of the most common pieces of parking lot junk, used to balance tires, these things seem to fall off in the slightest breeze. They used to be made of lead, which was horrible - they wind up in storm drains, and therefore int he water - but nowadays they're made from zinc or steel, which isn't as horrible. A old lead weight still shows up from time to time, but it's either from a 1970 Delta 88 or it's been sitting around for a long time.

ID		130007
Object		Tire weight
Material		Steel
Dimensions		40mm
Provenance		Dallas, Texas
Credit Line		The Museum of Parking Lot Junk

Pulley

I can imagine some alien archaeologist one day, long after we're gone, sifting through the dirt looking for signs of civilization. They might find a bone or two, a few teeth, and then something like this. Smashed and rusted almost beyond recognition. We might be able to squint at it just right and say "aha! a pulley!", but will they? And if they do, will they assume we were some sort of weird, pulley based society, all of our machinery and commerce based on hoisting things in the air? Nah, probably not.

ID		130006
Object		Pulley
Material		Steel
Dimensions		70mm
Provenance		Dallas, Texas
Credit Line		The Museum of Parking Lot Junk

Wire

This was left over after some chain link fence repair at Kidd Springs Park in Dallas. Usually this sort of thing is swept up by the folks doing the repairs, but this one was wedged behind a concrete parking space stop and easy to miss. Besides the obvious aesthetic and archaeological appeal, some parking lot junk, like this wire, still has some functional life left in it.

ID		130005
Object		Wire
Material		Aluminum
Dimensions		120mm
Provenance		Kidd Springs Park, Dallas, Texas
Credit Line		The Museum of Parking Lot Junk