UNITED STATES
                  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                        Washington, D.C. 20549

                             SCHEDULE 13D

              Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
                          (Amendment No. 2 )*

                  Public Storage Properties XVIII, Inc.
                           (Name of Issuer)

                         Common Stock Series A
                    (Title of Class of Securities)

                             74462C 10 9
                            (CUSIP Number)

       David Goldberg, 701 Western Avenue, Suite 200, Glendale,
             California 91201-2397, 818/244-8080, ext. 529
      ---------------------------------------------------------
            (Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person
          Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

                            April 9, 1997
       (Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)

   If the filing person has previously filed a statement on
   Schedule 13G to report the acquisition which is the subject of
   this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of Rule
   13d-1(b)(3) or (4), check the following box [   ].

   Check the following box if a fee is being paid with the
   statement [   ].  (A fee is not required only if the reporting
   person: (1) has a previous statement on file reporting
   beneficial ownership of more than five percent of the class of
   securities described in Item 1; and (2) has filed no amendment
   subsequent thereto reporting beneficial ownership of five
   percent or less of such class.)  (See Rule 13d-7.)

   NOTE:  Six copies of this statement, including all exhibits,
   should be filed with the Commission.  See Rule 13d-1(a) for
   other parties to whom copies are to be sent.

   *The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a
   reporting person's initial filing on this form with respect to
   the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent
   amendment containing information which would alter disclosures
   provided in a prior cover page.

   The information required on the remainder of this cover page
   shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18
   of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise
   subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall
   be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the
   Notes).

                             SCHEDULE 13D

   CUSIP No. 74462C 10 9

   1    Name of Reporting Person
        S.S. or I.R.S. Identification No. of Above Person

             Public Storage, Inc.

   2    Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group*
                                          a. [ ]
                                          b. [ ]

   3    SEC Use Only

   4    Source of Funds*
             WC

   5    Check Box if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings is Required
        Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)    [  ]

   6    Citizenship or Place of Organization
             California

   NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
   WITH
                  7    Sole Voting Power
                       168,000

                  8    Shared Voting Power
                       N/A

                  9    Sole Dispositive Power
                       168,000

                  10   Shared Dispositive Power
                       N/A

   11   Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting
        Person
             168,000

   12   Check Box if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes
        Certain Shares*                   [  ]

   13   Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11)
             6.05%

   14   Type of Reporting Person*
             CO

             The Statement on Schedule 13D dated August 16, 1996, as
   amended by Amendment No. 1 dated February 25, 1997 (the "Schedule 13D")
   filed by Public Storage, Inc. (the "Reporting Person"), relating to the
   Common Stock Series A, par value $.01 per share (the "Common Stock
   Series A" or the "Series A Shares"), of Public Storage Properties XVIII,
   Inc., a California corporation (the "Issuer"), is amended by this
   Amendment No. 2 as set forth below.  Defined terms that are not defined
   herein have the meanings assigned to those terms in the Schedule 13D.

   Item 4.   Purpose of Transaction

             The Reporting Person and the Issuer have entered into an
   Agreement and Plan of Reorganization dated as of April 9, 1997 (the
   "Merger Agreement") providing for the merger of the Issuer with and
   into the Reporting Person, which is subject to certain conditions (as
   described below).  Upon the merger, each Series A Share (other than
   Series A Shares held by the Reporting Person or by holders of Series A
   Shares of the Issuer ("Series A Shareholders") who have properly
   exercised dissenters' rights under California law ("Dissenting Shares"))
   would be converted into the right to receive cash, the Reporting
   Person's common stock or a combination of the two, as follows:  (i) with
   respect to a certain number of Series A Shares (not to exceed 20% of the
   Series A Shares, less any Dissenting Shares), upon a shareholder's
   election, $20.38 in cash, subject to reduction as described below or
   (ii) that number (subject to rounding) of shares of the Reporting
   Person's common stock determined by dividing $20.38, subject to
   reduction as described below, by the average of the per share closing
   prices on the New York Stock Exchange of the Reporting Person's common
   stock during the 20 consecutive trading days ending on the fifth trading
   day prior to the special meeting of the shareholders of the Issuer.  The
   consideration paid by the Reporting Person to the Series A Shareholders
   in the merger will be reduced by the amount of cash distributions
   required to be paid to the Series A Shareholders by the Issuer prior
   to completion of the merger (estimated at $.91 per share) in order to
   satisfy the Issuer's REIT distribution requirements ("Required REIT
   Distributions").  The consideration received by the Series A
   Shareholders in the merger, however, along with any Required REIT
   Distributions, will not be less than $20.38 per Series A Share, which
   amount represents the interest of the Series A Shareholders in the
   market value of the Issuer's real estate assets at March 17, 1997 (based
   on an independent appraisal) and the interest of the Series A
   Shareholders in the estimated net asset value of its other assets at
   June 30, 1997.  Additional distributions would be made to the Series A
   Shareholders to cause the Issuer's estimated net asset value allocable
   to the Series A Shareholders as of the date of the merger to be
   substantially equivalent to $20.38 per share.  Upon the merger, each
   share of the Issuer's Common Stock Series B and Common Stock Series C
   would be converted (or deemed to be converted) into the right to receive
   $9.36 in the Reporting Person's common stock (valued as in the case of
   the Series A Shares) plus (i) any additional distributions equal to the
   amount by which the Issuer's estimated net asset value allocable to the
   holders of the Issuer's Common Stock Series B and Common Stock Series C
   as of the date of the merger exceeds $9.36 per share and (ii) any
   Required REIT Distributions payable to the holders of the Issuer's
   Common Stock Series B (estimated at $.91 per share).  There are
   1,245,791 shares of the Issuer's Common Stock Series B and Common Stock
   Series C.  The Series A Shares and the shares of the Issuer's Common
   Stock Series B and Common Stock Series C held by the Reporting Person
   will be cancelled in the merger.  The merger is subject to (among other
   things) approval by the Issuer's shareholders and the Reporting Person's
   Board of Directors and receipt of a satisfactory fairness opinion by the
   Issuer.  The Reporting Person believes that the conditions to the merger
   will be satisfied, although there can be no assurance.

             For further information regarding the merger, see the Merger
   Agreement which is referenced under Item 7 as Exhibit 1 hereto and is
   incorporated herein by this reference.

   Item 7.   Material to be Filed as Exhibits

             Exhibit 1 - Agreement and Plan of Reorganization dated as of
   April 9, 1997 by and among the Reporting Person, the Issuer, Public
   Storage Properties XVI, Inc., Public Storage Properties XVII, Inc. and
   Public Storage Properties XIX, Inc. (incorporated by reference from
   Exhibit 5 to Amendment No. 9 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting
   Person relating to the beneficial ownership of securities issued by
   Public Storage Properties XVI, Inc.)

   

                                  SIGNATURE

        After reasonable inquiry and to the best of its knowledge and
   belief, the undersigned certifies that the information set forth in
   this statement is true, complete and correct.

   Dated:  April 17, 1997              PUBLIC STORAGE, INC.


                                       By:  /s/ SARAH HASS
                                           -------------------------
                                           Sarah Hass
                                           Vice President