It was the middle of the Great Depression, but more and more Oklahomans were driving cars -- and trying to find a parking place. In an attempt to solve "one of modernity's headaches," a gadget ...

On July 16, 1935, the world's first parking meter was invented and installed in Oklahoma City on the corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue.Carl Magee inven ...

The Idea of Charging For Parking Spreads. On July 16, 1935, Oklahoma City had 150 of Magee’s meters installed along 14 blocks of downtown Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma City - The city where parking meters were born says it's doing away with the last of its coin-operated models by the end of the year as it installs new computerised ones. Technology inside ...

The Oklahoma City VA Medical Center is going to be implementing new parking arrangements this upcoming Monday.

The City Council meeting on March 3, 1941, permanently retained the parking meters in Elmira. On May 9, 1941, the Star-Gazette reported that Elmira’s parking meters yielded $16,613.70 since ...

It all began modestly enough with the Park-O-Meter, a coin-operated, spring-loaded device that charged five cents for one hour. First introduced in 1935 in the western boom-or-bust town of Oklahoma ...

Carl Magee is credited with inventing the first kerbside parking meter in the 1930s. (Oklahoma Historical Society)Paid kerbside parking then began on July 16, 1935 when Oklahoma City installed the ...