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`Happy %#@! Anniversary, First Parking Meter Installed July
`16, 1935
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`July 16, 2009 Chicago Parking Meter, Parking Meter
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`Today, urban motorists everywhere, are silently cursing as they note what can only be called an
`anniversary of evil.
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`Because today in 1935, the very first parking meter was installed at the corner of First Street and
`Robinson Avenue, in downtown Oklahoma City, OK.
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`Carlton Cole “Carl” Magee, attorney and newspaper editor was the fiendish, evil, bastard genius who
`invented this motorist tormenting device 74 years ago today.
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`As the story goes, Magee came up with the idea shortly after he was named Chairman of the
`Oklahoma City’s Chamber of Commerce Traffic Committee in 1933.
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`In his quest to design a working parking meter, he sought the help of Gerald A. Hale and Professor
`H.G. Thuesen over at Oklahoma State University, whom assisted Magee in making his idea a reality.
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`Happy %#@! Anniversary, First Parking Meter Installed July
`16, 1935
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`July 16, 2009 Chicago Parking Meter, Parking Meter
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`Today, urban motorists everywhere, are silently cursing as they note what can only be called an
`anniversary of evil.
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`Because today in 1935, the very first parking meter was installed at the corner of First Street and
`Robinson Avenue, in downtown Oklahoma City, OK.
`
`Carlton Cole “Carl” Magee, attorney and newspaper editor was the fiendish, evil, bastard genius who
`invented this motorist tormenting device 74 years ago today.
`
`As the story goes, Magee came up with the idea shortly after he was named Chairman of the
`Oklahoma City’s Chamber of Commerce Traffic Committee in 1933.
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`In his quest to design a working parking meter, he sought the help of Gerald A. Hale and Professor
`H.G. Thuesen over at Oklahoma State University, whom assisted Magee in making his idea a reality.
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`According to an article by Bonnie Loyd, in the Spring, 1988 edition of Whole Earth Review:
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`By the 1930s automobiles were flooding America, and parking was first becoming a
`problem. Downtown merchants worried because business suffered when parking spots
`were clogged with the same cars all day long. Carl Magee, an Oklahoma newspaperman
`with a checkered past, thought up a solution — a coin-operated timer — but he didn’t
`know how to make it work. Two professors at Oklahoma State University (Prof. H.G.
`Thueson and Gerald A.Hale–ed. geek) listened to Magee’s idea and developed an
`operating model. The first 150 parking meters were installed in downtown Oklahoma
`City on 16 July 1935 (allegedly installed them under the cover of darkness!–ed. geek).
`The meters charged a nickel an hour. They were not a hit.
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`Many citizens were outraged. They claimed it was un-American to pay for parking, and
`some initiated court actions to remove the meters. The battle attracted national attention,
`but the meters stayed.
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`Magee filed for for He filed for a patent May 13, 1935 for a “coin controlled parking meter” It
`took just over three years, but his patent, #2,118,318, was issued May 24, 1938. Under two
`months later, the first parking meter was bolted into the street of downtown Oklahoma City.
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`According to accounts that city paid a whopping $23 per parking meter to the Dual Parking Meter
`Company–the company Magee founded to manufacture parking meters. It was named “Dual”
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`because, as the story goes, the meters served two purposes, one for controlling parking and two, for
`revenue generation.
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`By 1951, just 16 years later, one million parking meters dotted the American scene.
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`Magee died in Tulsa, OK in 1946. However, his infernal invention, unfortunately, lives on.
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`Magee’s meter No. 1 currently resides within a glass case in the State Museum of History in
`Oklahoma City.
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`GEEK NOTE: Some accounts list July 14th or 15th as this red letter day in American history.
`However, most records, including the Oklahoma History Center, have it listed as July 16th.
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`3 Responses to Happy %#@! Anniversary, First Parking Meter Installed July 16,
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`Anonymous says:
`July 16, 2009 at 7:28 pm
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`If there’s a Hell, that Carlton MaGee is there… as one of Mayor Satan’s evil henchmen to
`enforce Hell’s parking meters.
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`Of inanimate objects, the parking meter has to be in the top ten objects that ooze evil. Another
`contending inanimate object that oozes evil is the Land Mine, with its indefinite shelf life
`waiting to maim and kill.
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`2. Downtown okc reviews | Oklahoma Reviews says:
`July 17, 2009 at 12:35 pm
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`[...] theexpiredmeter.com » Blog Archive » Happy %#@! Anniversary, First …According to an
`article by Bonnie Loyd, in the Spring, 1988 edition of Whole Earth Review: By the 1930s
`automobiles were flooding America, and parking was first becoming a problem. Downtown
`merchants worried because business suffered when parking spots were … The first 150 parking
`meters were installed in downtown Oklahoma City on 16 July 1935 (allegedly installed them
`under the cover of darkness!–ed. geek). The meters charged a nickel an hour. They were not a
`hit. … read more… [...]
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`thomas rhodes says:
`November 9, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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`The first parking meters were manufactured by M.H. Rhodes Inc….Bartholomew Ave.
`Hartford CT. The business opened in 1930 and produced meters until the late 1970′s. There was
`litigation between the Oklahoma concern and M.H.Rhodes Inc. respective the patent rights
`which were awarded to the Hartford CT concern.
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