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[Photograph 2012.201.B1001.0064]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City parking meter repairmen Omer Barnes and Ronald Luttrell were getting close to their work Tuesday afternoon during a downtown meter inspection."
Date: July 28, 1970
Creator: Wilson, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1001.0114]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A budding court case loomed Thursday in the 600 block of N. Harvey where contradictory parking signs leaves motorists with an argument for His Honor providing the ticketed defendant has a camera as did staff photographer Bob Albright."
Date: April 8, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1001.0062]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Other than misspelling the word marshal and banning parking during what often can be working hours, federal court and enforcement folks think city hall did a fine job of marking parking meter posts."
Date: April 26, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0974A.0148]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Riding the shovel hard-hatted Mayor Norick, left, and W.M. Harrison of Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority board help break ground Friday for two downtown parking garages being built by the Central Oklahoma Transportation and parking Authority on Santa Fe street east of the Liberty Tower (background) and at N Broadway and Robert S. Kerr."
Date: October 16, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1839]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Construction of a new downtown parking garage was under way today as Thomas Estell, on earth moving equipment, excavates, for the parking building east of the new Liberty Bank Tower in background. The parking garage, to be operated by Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority, will be two blocks long frome Main to Kerr Ave. along the west side of the new Santa Fe St."
Date: October 1, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Gerald A. Hale: Parking Meter Reminiscences

Description: Article narrates the history of how two men, Carl C. Magee and Gerald A. Hale, created the parking meter to help Oklahoma City solve the problem with overcrowded parking lots. The article also details the impact their creation had on the world.
Date: Autumn 1970
Creator: Fischer, LeRoy H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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