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  • The world's first installed parking meter was in Oklahoma City, on July 16, 1935. Carl C. Magee, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is generally credited with originating the parking meter. He filed for a patent for a "coin controlled parking meter" on May 13, 1935.

  • Oklahoma was among the states hardest hit by the Great Depression and the drought that created the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
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