Personal favourites were ones specifically for hotel designers, packaged food companies, airline service suppliers, and boat builders.
If you ever want a reminder about the scope of opportunity there is in the world, look for the niche industry magazines. They're a delight.
And, more on-topic, Restaurateur Magazine, with an ad for "Sizzle! Paint-on Char Marks for any meat, for that fresh-from-the-grill look!"
(Names of magazines and products approximate; but I'm sure about "BarfClean".)
Are people that bad at peeing that there's a need for urine remover in extra as well as regular strength?!
Products like that aren't for when someone pees on the toilet. It's for when someone's toddler pisses in the corner or an incontinent elderly person has an accident. The supplier probably only stocks the extra strength one because for "regular" urine removal normal janitorial products are used. The special stuff only comes out when piss is somewhere it really shouldn't be and needs to be as gone as possible as fast as possible. Given the choice between the $10 bottle and the $20 bottle that supposedly works better most commercial customers are gonna opt for the latter for that use case so that's what the supplier stocks.
Actually, maybe I don't really want to know.
https://magazine.parkingtoday.com/issues/ParkingToday2020-07...
Even them are touched by the BLM protests and the editorial ask unsurely if parking can be racist?
http://www.theplumbingmuseum.org/
Where is it located? Watertown, MA. Where else?
N.B. I haven't been, and they're closed at the moment (presumably for the same reason as everybody else).
If you make it there and haven't had your fill of water-related museums, there's also the pumping station at Chestnut Hill:
https://waterworksmuseum.org/about/
They have 3 large steam engines that pumped water in the Boston area for the better part of a century. I have been to this one, and it's amazing.
Parking is a ten-billion dollar industry in the US alone. Doesn't surprise me that it can support a magazine. How many magazines do you see that are part of much smaller niches?
Stage 2: Plenty of adverts. It's not like a company making car park barriers is advertising in the New York Times.
Stage 3: Profit
At least, that's my theory as to how there are so many different rail industry magazines...
I find it hilarious there is even such a publication. Over the years I have read about other, similar hilarious ones, but I forgot which.
Emphasis mine.