In the spring of 1949, Exeter’s business district bloomed not with flowers, but with silver parking meters. After quick approval from the town selectmen, “the speed with which the holes were drilled ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Several changes to parking meters are happening around San Diego which affect where and for how long drivers decide to park in certain neighborhoods. The city recently ...

Early in 1935, Editor Carlton Cole Magee of the Oklahoma News invented a device which he called the Dual Park-O-Meter because it had two purposes: to control parking, provide revenue. A typical ...

On May 13, 1935 — 90 years ago today — lawyer and newspaper publisher Carl Magee of Oklahoma City applied for a patent of an improved version of something he had conceived and invented three years ...

Chicago’s much-maligned parking meter privatization deal could soon be costing the city even more money. Chicago Parking Meters, the private company with a monopoly on the city’s paid street parking, ...

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s infamous parking meters deal could soon cost Chicagoans another pile of cash. City attorneys are recommending aldermen approve a deal to settle for $15.5 million three ...

During the Great Depression, White Plains became the first Westchester municipality to install parking meters, a controversial act that forever changed the suburban streetscape and made permanent our ...

San Francisco resident Miguel Vargas poses for a picture on Nov. 30 in front of his car along Berry Street after a restaurant shift. (Photo by David Mamaril Horowitz.) As San Francisco rolls out new ...

The parking meter turns 78 on Tuesday, but don't expect any birthday presents. The nation's first parking meters were installed July 16, 1935, in Oklahoma City. Tulsa now has hundreds, maybe thousands ...