Gossip Friday: No Parking

From 1940:

Miss Carole Lombard is having some difficulties with tradesmen around the boulevards because of her unorthodox method of parking her car.

If there is no space available at the curb and no parking lot handy, Miss Lombard runs her dashing red roadster ever so delicately up onto the sidewalk and leaves it there until she has concluded her errands in the neighborhood. 

Cops and tradesmen, perceiving the “C.G.” on the doors and the Clark Gable registration certificate on the steering post, are loath to take drastic measures. But they feel pretty drastic, nonetheless. 

Miss Lombard is as considerate as she can be when she leaves her car on the pavement, always allowing space for pedestrians to pass in single file.