It was inevitable in the Freeway City...

It was inevitable in the Freeway City that someone would unveil a companion product for the car alarm: A parking space alarm.

The $189.95 cordless device, which goes on sale at the upscale Hammacher-Schlemmer store in Beverly Hills next week, uses ultrasonic waves to detect a nervy driver entering your reserved space. It immediately sounds a 120-decibel alarm that alternates with a synthesized voice growling:

“WARNING. RESERVE PARKING. PLEASE MOVE YOUR CAR OR IT WILL BE TOWED.”

Elizabeth Buckley, H-S’s retail manager, said: “With parking such a nightmare all over the Southland, we expect it to be very popular.”

The Executive Private Parking Space Guard, as it’s called, is an 11-pound device that can be mounted on a wall or a steel base. The gizmo’s literature says that it automatically shuts off two minutes after the shamed intruder departs your place.

Just when false car alarms seemed to be on the decline, too. . . .

Amid the controversy surrounding the proposed “Steel Cloud” monument over the Hollywood Freeway, County Supervisor Pete Schabarum has asked his colleagues to approve spending $150,000 to study building a parking lot across that same cement span a bit farther north.

Schabarum said county Public Works officials feel that the structure could accommodate 1,085 vehicles.

Call it “Steel and Rubber Cloud.”

And then there’s the case of the parked statue.

It’s a situation the hapless Little Fellow would appreciate only too well: A statue of Charlie Chaplin’s immortal Tramp is looking for a permanent home in Hollywood.

In the meantime, the bronze work--by Soviet emigres Janet and Emmanuil Snitkovsky--is on display at the Dyansen Gallery in Beverly Hills until Sept. 8. But because it isn’t a permanent display, Beverly Hills’ permit policy requires that the Little Fellow be mounted on rollers.

At least he doesn’t have to use his cane to get around.

More than a dozen television crews showed up to film state Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp discussing his plan for a task force to fight international drug trafficking--wonderful coverage, incidentally, for an expected gubernatorial candidate.

Imagine the surprise, then, when press secretary Duane Peterson asked that no one train a camera on Van de Kamp.

A noble effort to exclude politics? Nope--a momentary mistake.

Elected officials at the press conference were given red lapel pins while state drug agents were given white ones. But Peterson thought the opposite was the case.

And seeking the press’ help in concealing the identities of the drug agents, Peterson asked: “Please do not take photos of people who wear the red pins.”

“White,” someone corrected him.

Quickly noting that his boss displayed a red pin, Peterson yelped: “White! White!”

Sushi Attacks on L.A. Institutions (cont.):

Artist Bonese Collins Turner has depicted the Hollywood sign and Los Angeles International Airport as victims of flying finger foods in a sort of satire of American fears of a Japanese economic invasion.

This week in her series: Sushi pelts the Goodyear Blimp.

One man who truly hopes that Hef’s marriage endures for at least another five weeks is Dr. Charles Ara. It was Ara who performed the wedding ceremony last month for Hugh Hefner and Kimberly Conrad (you remember--the bride wore clothes). Now he’s scheduled to conduct an Oct. 6 workshop at Cerritos College on “The ‘A’s’ of Successful Marriages.”