Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-25 | Page 9 | City's Parking Meters Arrive

CITY'S PARKING METERS ARRIVE Are Received for Day 90 Trial The parking meter tide has begun to flow into Salt Sait Lake City Two hundred of the silent sentinels sentinels sentinels senti senti- nels of ot the curb arrived Saturday tram from rom the Rite Park-Rite corporation of Dallas Texas The deal apparently was WM closed beyond revocation asan as asan asan an executed contract was received from rom the company Meanwhile equally eager to send 30 more moro of the devices was the Dual ual Parking Meter company of Oklahoma City Okla which contends contends con- con tends ends the city is committed to an order that it cannot wriggle out of And deep down within the public safety building stand flanges in- in intended intended tended ended for the Dual company's meters which Mayor E. E B B. Erwin says ays will never grace Salt Lake City's water-swept water gutters Motorists may expect to start shelling helling out nickels any day now A letter Jetter from the Rite Park company corn corn- pany any president Robert Broussard said a crew was waa en route here to install the slot machines which would require about three days day Mr Broussards Broussard's letter also Implied implIed im- im plIed lied some gratitude on the company's com com- pany's tany's part for landing the order Ordinarily he ne wrote the company gives jives nine months' months free maintenance if f the order Is for or or more meters True Salt Lake City ordered ordered or- or ered dered dered only but the company Is going to give g the free service any any- 5 way At this point observers of city affairs recalled that the taking tak- tak ing ng the meters only o ly for a day 90 triaL rial The he free maintenance maintenance nance was seen as helping to decide on n their permanence Installation of of- the is meters Intended intended In- In tended ended t to sound the knell of double parking arking Mayor Erwin Erwin Indicated At Athe Atthe Atthe the he end of each block will bo be left space pace for tor unloading so that vehicles discharging passengers will just slide up to the corner unload and ande be e gone without the necessity of stop topping stopping ing within the block