Happy 75th birthday to the parking meter, first installed on this day in 1935 in Oklahoma City. However the parking meter's
annus mirabilis did not come until 1967. For this is the year in which the Beatles recorded their celebration of the parking meter,
Lovely Rita, featuring John, Paul and George on the comb-and-toilet-paper. It is also the year in which New York city hired its first male member of its "meter maid" crew. And in 1967's Cool Hand Luke, we first meet Paul Newman's egg-loving character sawing the heads off a host of parking meters. They'd have you believe '67 was the Summer of Love, but really it was all about those meters.
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