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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: The Birth Of The Parking Meter
Description: The world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City on July 16th, 1935.Park-O-Meter No. 1 was the brainchild Carl C. Magee, who’d moved to Oklahoma after being acquitted of manslaughter in New Mexico. Indignant opponents of his system considered paying for parking to be un-American, as it forced drivers to pay what amounted to a tax on their cars without due process of law.In this episode, The Retrospectors uncover the colourful past of another parking meter pioneer, Roger Babson; unpick the financial model still used by POM...