Thursday, July 16, 2009
Parking Meter
On today’s date in 1935, the first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The meter was invented by Carl Magee. Fifteen minutes of parking cost a nickle. The title character in “Cool Hand Luke”, played by Paul Newman, was imprisoned for cutting the heads off of parking meters.
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