Photo courtesy BOUNDARY COUNTY MUSEUM
This envelope, in the Boundary County Museum’s collection, could have been used for a parking violation.
July 30, 2020
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Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale (engineering professors at Oklahoma State University) designed the first working parking meter, the Black Maria, in 1935. They began working on the parking meter in 1933 at the request Carl C. Magee, a lawyer and newspaper publisher in Oklahoma City, Okla. Magee wanted to “instill some order to the chaos of street parking.”