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turnover, since parking spaces adjacent to downtown businesses were occupied by the same cars all day. Magee conceived the idea of a coin-operated timer that could be used to increase traffic turnover in busy commercial thoroughfares, and he sponsored a contest at the
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New ownership and production facility expansion occurred at POM in the 1980s, and POM unveiled its patented “Advanced
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in 1963. POM, Inc., as constituted today was organized in 1976 to purchase the parking meter production operations from
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