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Diane Feinstein Is Older Than the Parking Meter

A driver inserting a nickel into a parking meter for an hour’s parking at White Plains, New York in 1938 (left) Diane Feinstein in 2021 (right).
A driver inserting a nickel into a parking meter for an hour’s parking at White Plains, New York in 1938 (left) Diane Feinstein in 2021 (right). Photo: Horace Abrahams / Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images)

Sen. Diane Feinstein, a Democrat from California who’s reportedly worth at least $58 million, was born on June 22, 1933, just a few months after Franklin D. Roosevelt was first sworn in as president. A cup of coffee was 20 cents, and the parking meter was still two years away from being introduced.

The first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935, in an effort to tame the city’s parking woes. Previously, when parking was free on any city street, it caused chaos and overwhelmed neighborhoods that weren’t built for an influx of cars. But that was a relatively new problem that arrived with the automobile.

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