The first parking meter was put into operation on July 16, 1935, in
Oklahoma City, OK. It cost a nickel to park downtown for an hour on the southeast
corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue.
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| Park-O-Meter No. 1 |
Finding a parking space was becoming a problem for motorists and
shoppers. Nevertheless, some drivers fought the parking fee, calling it a “tax”
without due process of law.
That gripe didn’t get any traction.
Within a half dozen years, there were 140,000 parking meters in
America.
You know the rest of the story.
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