WORLD’S FIRST PARKING METER INSTALLED

On this date-The first parking meter is installed in 1935 in Oklahoma City.  Invented by Carl Magee, the charges were around a nickle for 15 minutes.  Magee would later get the patent

The world’s first parking meter, known as Park-O-Meter No.
1,was installed on the southeast corner of what was then
First Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma on July 16, 1935.

The parking meter was the brainchild of a man named Carl
C. Magee, who moved to Oklahoma City from
New Mexico
in 1927.

History lesson: The first parking meter

World's First Parking Meter: Walking Through the History of Parking - Get  My Parking

World's first parking meter installed in Oklahoma City, July 1935
                                             Carl Magee

The First Parking Meter Was Installed on July 16, 1935 — Paleofuture

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