Hamden, Connecticut: Ghost Parking Lot (Gone)

Road report and review of SITE's strange environmental art, twenty cars half buried in a parking lot and covered with asphalt. (Destroyed in Sept. 2003.)

Cars under asphalt in a shopping center parking lot. Short video visit in 2001; demolished in 2003.

The line of 15 asphalt-covered cars comprising the "Ghost Parking Lot" was demolished and removed from a shopping center in Hamden, Connecticut on Monday, Sept. 22....

The cars submerged in asphalt at the Hamden Plaza shopping center, Hamden, CT, were slated for removal on July 17, until the owner granted a temporary reprieve.The 20 piece public art project, a low profile fixture of Hamden since 1978, has deteriorated into a public eyesore.