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

The parking meter was the brainchild of a man named Carl C. Magee, who moved to Oklahoma City from New Mexico in 1927. Magee had a colorful past: As a reporter for an Albuquerque newspaper, he had played a pivotal role in uncovering the so-called Teapot Dome Scandal (named for the Teapot Dome oil field in Wyoming), in which Albert B. Fall, then-secretary of the interior, was convicted of renting government lands to oil companies in return for personal loans and gifts. He also wrote a series of articles exposing corruption in the New Mexico court system, and was tried and acquitted of manslaughter after he shot at one of the judges targeted in the series during an altercation at a Las Vegas hotel.

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1 hour ago, 953 nut said:

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

 

Later that day, the first attempt to jump over said parking meter took place. 

 

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He may not wish to repeat that again!! 

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Thanks to him we have the awesome scene from "Cool Hand Luke" where he cuts off the parking meters!

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No pic but we have a vintage parking meter in the driveway at the Spike Camp in northern WI. No idea where it came from and Dad is the only guy that knows the story behind it and he's long passed. Some day I'll restore it.