Parking Garage Photography | Chad Davis Photography

Northstar Center Parking Garage Ramp, Minneapolis

A lower-level vehicle ramp inside the Northstar Center parking garage in downtown Minneapolis. Built as part of the original 1960s mixed-use complex, the garage reflects the era’s push to accommodate growing automobile traffic in the central business district. Its narrow lanes, low ceilings, and concrete-banded structure are typical of mid-century urban parking facilities designed to integrate directly with office towers and the city’s emerging skyway network. Despite renovations to portions of the complex above, much of the garage retains its original utilitarian character, serving daily commuters and visitors accessing nearby government buildings, hotels, and transit connections.

Ramp C, Downtown Minneapolis

Ramp C parking garage in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Skyway Level West signs in parking garage

Skyway elevators in a parking ramp in downtown Minneapolis.

Location Reminder ticket stamping

“Location Reminder” ticket stamping machine, once used in transit stations to help passengers remember where they parked or to mark their travel tickets with time and place. The metal box features a lever-operated stamping mechanism, a faded instructional label, and worn edges that show decades of use. Devices like this were common in train station parking facilities and older public transit hubs before digital systems replaced manual timestamping. The angled mounting on tiled wall, along with the utilitarian industrial design, reflects mid-20th-century station infrastructure, where functional machines like this played a part in daily commuter routines.