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, shown below.
Carlton Cole “Carl” Magee
(January 1872 – February 1946)
Ernest Pfenning of Chicago (above) became Ford’s first car owner – 23 July 1903.
On July 15, 1903, the newly formed Ford Motor Company took its
first order from Chicago dentist Ernst Pfenning: an $850 two-
cylinder Model A automobile with a tonneau (or backseat). The car, produced at Ford’s plant on Mack Street (now Mack Avenue) in
Detroit, was delivered to Dr. Pfenning just over a week later.
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)
MIKE GRACIA
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
(July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967)
Folk singer Woody Guthrie died of complications
of Huntington’s disease.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Actor Harrison Ford is 79 today.
