The now-ubiquitous parking meter had been invented by Carl C. Magee, editor of the Oklahoma City Oklahoma News, at that time a Scripps-Howard newspaper.

O n 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.

Magee’s meters charged drivers five cents to park for one hour. Parking spots opened so frequently in Oklahoma City that merchants began to clamor for meters on their streets as well.

Oklahoma City, where parking meters were born, is doing away with the last of its coin-operated models as it installs new computerised ones.

The first mention of “parking meters” in the Star-Gazette was on July 17, 1935. An article announced that Oklahoma City would be the first in the nation to charge its citizens a fee for ...

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

Tuesday afternoon, there was talk of rescinding the fairly new contract with SP+ over parking meters in downtown Jackson. Jackson residents went before council members and demanded that the machines ...

Nobody enjoys feeding the meter or getting a ticket when they've overstayed, but experts argue city CBDs and shopping districts would be much worse places without paid parking.

Many cities-beginning with Oklahoma City in 1935-installed coin-operated, spring-driven parking meters beside curb lanes to increase turnover, help enforce violations, reduce traffic congestion ...

First introduced in 1935 in the western boom-or-bust town of Oklahoma City, the meters were the answer to a headache endemic to the burgeoning automobile age — a shortage of parking spaces caused by ...