Historical Marker
Melvin "Buck" Garrison
Historical marker location:
307 East Cherokee Street, Wagoner, Oklahoma
( Marker is at the intersection of Cherokee Street (State Highway 51) and Casaver Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Cherokee Street.)
Marker installed: 2005
February 18, 1946 December 26, 1971. Game Warden.
The world's first installed parking meter was in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935. The parking meter was invented by Carl C. Magee, a journalist and entrepreneur, who wanted to solve the problem of cars taking up too much space on the city's streets.