Word: tourtelot
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...city of St. Petersburg, Fla. (pop. 200,000), lopped off every one of its 4,1 86 curbside parking meters. Letters poured in from cities as far away as Britain, asking about the feasibility of this unprecedented backtracking-the result of a determined campaign by Realtor Richard D. Tourtelot, who managed to convince St. Petersburg officials that the meters were the major factor in the blight that had fallen on the city's downtown area. Downtown doldrums are getting to be pandemic, and if meter removal was a solution, other cities wanted to know about...
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