CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Did you know the man behind the parking meter was from eastern Iowa?
Carlton Magee was born in 1872 in Fayette. He attended both Iowa State Teachers College, what would later become the University of Northern Iowa, and Upper Iowa University.
His first meter was installed in Oklahoma City in 1935. The meters were demonstrated in Cedar Rapids one year later, but were met with pushback from local businessmen and lawyers…