The world's first parking meters were installed in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on this day in 1935. Carl C. Magee had been appointed to the Chamber of Commerce's traffic committee and had invented a mechanical timer, and today was the first day a motorist was angered by needing to shove coins in one. There are now an estimated five million parking meters in use in the US, raising about $1.25 millions per day along with the blood pressure of an unknown number of drivers.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
- Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

I live across the street from a church. Some of the most ruthless and unchristian driving that I've ever seen is those pious folks trying to get out of the parking lot first after services.
- Peter Manly, 1945 - 2007