I just found out that the Shopping Cart was invented in Oklahoma

[royalfan5]

I had never considered the genesis of the shopping cart until I just read about it. Anyway, I find it interesting that the shopping cart is Oklahoman.

[BajaOklahoma]

And the parking meter.

[OUstudent4life]

and the guy that "discovered" anabolic steroids.

[TUSooner]

The guy that invented the parking meter had an interesting history as a crusading journalist; he accidentally killed somebody while shooting at a judge or something. If I can ever remember I'll tell you. :rolleyes:

[SicEmBaylor]

Don't forget peanut butter squares.

[AlbqSooner]

Parking meter and shopping cart were both inventions from Sylvan Goldman of OKC. I had not heard of his shooting at a judge, but it WAS Oklahoma in the early 20th century, so I will defer to better historians than I.

[TUSooner]

Parking meter and shopping cart were both inventions from Sylvan Goldman of OKC. I had not heard of his shooting at a judge, but it WAS Oklahoma in the early 20th century, so I will defer to better historians than I.
I thought you were going to fill us in. The newspapers editing and judge-shooting-at was in New Mexico, I think.

[TUSooner]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carlton Cole "Carl" Magee was an American lawyer, publisher, and inventor of the parking meter. He was born in Iowa.

In 1920, as owner of the Albuquerque Journal (then known as the Albuquerque Morning Journal), he called San Miguel County’s government the worst in the United States. A local judge, David Leahy, responded that Magee was a;

“lying, un-American political harlot, fatheaded imbecile remittance man, dirty cowardly reprobate, wicked, wanton, false, malicious, dishonest, corrupt, unscrupulous, and worse than the assassin of President McKinley.”
In 1925, the two men collided in a hotel and started a wild fistfight, reported the El Paso Times. Magee pulled a pistol and winged the judge once, killing John B. Lassater, an innocent bystander, with a second shot. He was acquitted of manslaughter.

Magee founded the Magee's Independent in 1922, which would change its name to the New Mexico State Tribune in 1923 and the current Albuquerque Tribune in 1933. He was the paper's editor until he was transferred to the Oklahoma City News.

Magee switched from Republican to Democrat and ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate.

He is best known in journalism today for the E.W. Scripps Company motto, adopted from Dante for the Albuquerque Tribune and which is now carried by all Scripps chain newspapers: “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

[TUSooner]

In 1937, the first shopping carts were introduced at the Humpty Dumpty supermarket in Oklahoma City, invented by the store owner Sylvan Goldman. With the aid of a mechanic, Fred Young, Goldman designed the first shopping cart based on the folding chair. Wheels were placed where the bottoms of the chair legs were. In place of the chair seat, Young and Goldman, stacked two metal baskets on top of each other. This cart could be stored by folding it up like a folding chair. In 1947, Goldman made a big improvement in the design of his shopping cart with carts that could be stored by simply nesting one cart into another by pushing the front of each cart into the folding back of the one in front of it. This basic design is still in use today.

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/1452/shoppingcart1940thm9qg.jpg
One of the first shoping carts?

[OUDoc]

I always heard he invented the car sun visor as well.

[TUSooner]

I always heard he invented the car sun visor as well.
Are you daring me to look that up too? :D

[BajaOklahoma]

http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/enc/parking.htm

PARKING METER. Conceptualized in 1932 by Oklahoma Cityan Carl C. Magee, the parking meter was a modern solution to a modern vexation, parking congestion.
Carl C. Magee arrived in Oklahoma City from New Mexico in 1927. In his former life he had worked as a reporter for an Albuquerque newspaper, exposed the Teapot Dome scandal, and testified against Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Magee was later arrested for manslaughter in an altercation with a New Mexico judge but was acquitted. Surviving these episodes, he came to Oklahoma City to start a newspaper, the Oklahoma News.
Traffic congestion problems in 1920s and 1930s Oklahoma City typified those of most major American cities of the day. In Oklahoma in 1913 there had been an estimated three thousand cars; by 1930 there were five hundred thousand, most of which were registered in Oklahoma County and the capital city. The problem was that people who worked downtown occupied all of the parking spots every day, forcing retail customers to park far away from stores. The city had placed time limits on parking, with enforcement performed by traffic police who chalked tires, marked time, and gave tickets on hourly rounds. The parking situation came under scrutiny by the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce in 1932. Appointed chair of the Traffic Committee, Magee assumed the task of solving the problem.
Magee decided that the situation required the invention of a small, windable, inexpensively made, mechanical device to "time" the use of each parking space. In 1932 he designed and built a crude model and on December 21, 1932, filed for a patent. In order to refine the concept and build a real working prototype, he joined forces with the Oklahoma State University Engineering Department. Together, they sponsored a design competition with prize money of $160 for the winning design and $240 for the submission of a working model. The contest ran from February 17 to May 6, 1933. While several students built models, unfortunately none of the submissions was acceptable. Professor H. G. Thuesen joined the project soon afterward and enlisted the help of Gerald A. Hale, former engineering student and 1927 OSU graduate. For the new model, dubbed the "Black Maria," they created the interior parts; a local plumber made the exterior shell. By late 1933 McGee, Thuesen, and Hale began looking for a manufacturer.
The MacNick Company of Tulsa, makers of timing devices used to explode nitroglycerin in oil wells, contracted to manufacture the unit. On July 16, 1935, 175 meters were installed and tested on fourteen blocks in Oklahoma City, and when the system proved successful, the city placed meters all over downtown. Magee then raised money from 125 businessmen and incorporated the Dual Parking Meter Company, with offices in the Commerce and Exchange Building, Oklahoma City. The units were first trademarked as the "Dual" and later as the "Park-O-Meter," under patents held by Magee. After World War II a new organization, Magee-Hale Park-O-Meter Company, manufactured the product in Oklahoma City, and Dual was sold to an Ohio company.
The impact of the parking meter was threefold. First, it straightened out Oklahoma City's parking problem. Second, it brought revenue into the city coffers through meter money (a nickel an hour) and parking fines (a twenty-dollar fine for each violation). Third, it stimulated a huge growth in the assessed valuation of downtown commercial property. Carl C. Magee had started a trend, and parking meters sprang up in cities across the nation.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: LeRoy H. Fisher and Robert E. Smith, "Oklahoma and the Parking Meter," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 48 (Autumn1970). H. G. Thuesen, "Reminiscences of the Development of the Parking Meter," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 45 (Summer 1967).

[TUSooner]

I totally LOVE you, Baja !! :D

[walkoffsooner]

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[critical_phil]

Dear walkoffsooner,

I'm free - use me anytime.

Love,

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[slickdawg]

Carl was a cool mofo.

[handcrafted]

What I wanna know is, did the Goldman guy invent the one wheel that always wobbles back and forth really fast and annoys the crap out of you.

[TUSooner]

What I wanna know is, did the Goldman guy invent the one wheel that always wobbles back and forth really fast and annoys the crap out of you.
No, but he created that little piece of mop string that wraps around the other wheel to keep it from rolling.

[walkoffsooner]

Dear walkoffsooner,

I'm free - use me anytime.

Love,

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If I want your opinion i will give it to you:mad: :mad:

[walkoffsooner]

The dildo was invented in texass.Great need forces inventions.

[RiddlerOK]

True......true

[AlbqSooner]

What I wanna know is, did the Goldman guy invent the one wheel that always wobbles back and forth really fast and annoys the crap out of you.
Nope, that was invented by Albert Walton, the younger brother of Sam.