We had the first one apparently. It was installed July 16, 1935 in Oklahoma City.
I should have posted this about 4 days ago but that's the way it is I guess.
It had been patented a little earlier by Carl C. Magee who had been appointed in 1933 to the Oklahoma City Traffic Committee.
Magee was an editor of a newspaper from what I can determine. He put up $500 for a contest to create the meter and Oklahoma A&M professors H. G. Theusen and Gerald Hale apparently did just that.
It appears that Magee and Hale and others formed Dual Parking Meter Company and then it later became Magee-Hale Park-O-Meter. It was sold to Parkometer Co. of Russellville, Ark., now known as POM Inc.
5 years ago
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Now there's an invention that has stood the test of time. Did they all become millionaires?
Pretty cool stuff! Thanks for sharing!
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