--- description: This weekend the Arlington, Virginia County Board voted to approve the demolition of the garage where FBI agent Mark Felt (famously nicknamed "Deep Throat") fed... title: Watergate Parking Garage to be Demolished: Other Influential Concrete image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5f753f1c8d1a63e/698697da3bc99981121a41c5/garage-deep-throat.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Most Influential Garages in History  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jun 16, 2014 10:50 PM CUT  A view of the inside of the parking garage where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward held late night meetings with Deep Throat, his Watergate source who later turned out to be Mark Felt, the FBI's former No. 2 official, August 27, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. A view of the inside of the parking garage where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward held late night meetings with Deep Throat, his Watergate source who later turned out to be Mark Felt, the FBI's former No. 2 official, August 27, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia.Mark Wilson / Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jun 16, 2014 10:50 PM CUT This weekend the Arlington, Virginia County Board voted to approve the demolition of the garage where FBI agent Mark Felt (famously nicknamed “Deep Throat”) fed news tips to _Washington Post_ reporter Bob Woodward for his exposé on the Watergate scandal. That lowly garage has earned a high place in history. Here’s our unofficial ranking of the most influential slabs of concrete throughout time. Together they have transformed a grimy afterthought into hallowed ground. **•** It is believed that the founders of **Hewlett-Packard (HP)**, David Packard and Bill Hewlett, developed their first product, an [audio oscillator](http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/earlyinstruments/0002/ "undefined"), in the garage behind Packard’s house on 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. Now a California historic landmark, it is known as the “birthplace of Silicon Valley.” • Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded **Apple** Computers Inc. in 1976 and assembled the first computers in the garage of Jobs’s [childhood home](http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/tech/innovation/steve-jobs-historic-home/ "undefined") in Los Altos, California. In October 2013, the Los Altos Historical Commission voted to designate the 2066 Crist Drive residence a “historic resource.” • In [September 1998](http://www.google.com/about/company/history/ "undefined") **Google** co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page filed for incorporation, and in the same month, they set up a workspace in a garage that they rented from Susan Wojcicki — now YouTube’s CEO — on Santa Margarita Avenue in Menlo Park. The company grew out of the space in February 1999 and moved its eight employees to Palo Alto. • The waffle-patterned sole of **Nike** sneakers [date back ](http://www.inc.com/magazine/19810801/6547.html "undefined")to a Sunday morning in 1972, when the late Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman poured urethane rubber into a waffle iron in his garage. The experiment ruined the iron, but he stuck with the idea, and the “waffle” sole went into [full-scale production](http://www.inc.com/magazine/19810801/6547.html "undefined") in the mid-1970s. • When **Walt Disney** moved to California in 1923, he built his own camera stand in his uncle Robert’s North Hollywood garage and transformed the space into his animation studio. Soon after that, he signed a contract to produce the _Alice Comedies_ series about a girl and her cat, which The Walt Disney Company [considers](http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/about-disney/disney-history "undefined") “the start of the Disney company first known as The Disney Brothers Studio.” Fans have been known to [pay tribute](http://www.ocregister.com/articles/village-375281-grove-garden.html "undefined") to the Disneyland creator by leaving Disney souvenirs in front of the garage, which is now part of the Stanley Ranch Museum in Garden Grove, California. • **Herzog & de Meuron**‘s concrete-and-glass Miami Beach garage at 1111 Lincoln Road boasts luxury retailers inside, setting a new aesthetic standard for generally dreary American parking garages, which the _New York Times_ has [described](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/us/24garage.html "undefined") as “the grim afterthought of American design.” The structure shows a parking lot can also be a “civic space,” owner and developer Robert Wennett told [_The Wall Street Journal_](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204542404577158993265073180 "undefined"). • The glass garage in **_Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_** (1986), where the father of Ferris’s friend Cameron kept his 1961 Ferrari, is part of a real home in Highland Park, Illinois. Ferris (Matthew Broderick) and Cameron took the car for a joyride [through Chicago](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/30/us-usa-chicago-buellerhouse-idUSKBN0EA24T20140530 "undefined"). Crain’s Chicago Business reports the residence [finally sold](http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20140603/CRED0701/140609958/new-owners-plan-to-save-ferris-the-home-that-is "undefined") last month for $1.06 million after five years on the market. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2885448/influential-garages/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2885448/influential-garages/"},"headline":"The Most Influential Garages in History","datePublished":"2014-06-16T22:50:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:49.570Z","description":"This weekend the Arlington, Virginia County Board voted to approve the demolition of the garage where FBI agent Mark Felt (famously nicknamed \"Deep Throat\") fed...","url":"https://time.com/2885448/influential-garages/","keywords":["Newsfeed","nation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5f753f1c8d1a63e/698697da3bc99981121a41c5/garage-deep-throat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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