Announcer: This week's Oklahoma moment is brought to you by the Oklahoma
History Center.
Historian: The first parking meter was installed on an Oklahoma
City street on July 16th, 1935.
It was invented by Carl McGee, a local attorney and newspaper editor.
Traffic in downtown Oklahoma City had become a problem.
A committee was formed to study what could be done to deal with it, and
McGee's park-o-meter was the solution.
These newsreel scenes demonstrate how the strange new device was
viewed by the public; the first parking meter, on Main Street, Oklahoma
City.