1930s Oklahoma City near the Capitol. Many of the wells were still there in the 50s and 60s. There are still two or three in front of the capitol to this day.
Miami Beach in the 1940s
1909 Metz "Plan" Roadster..."Charles Metz had inherited a stack of car parts at Waltham Manufacturing and faced a weak but recovering economy. Faced with this challenge, Metz devised a winning scheme: the first installment plan for a car ever! This was a financing method born during the age when a customer customarily paid 100% on the barrel to get anything: groceries, a car, a house, whatever. So, Metz’ pay-as-you-go installment scheme? Absolute genius..The genius lay in how he did it…
Metz gathered the parts that he thought were necessary to form sub-assemblies of a complete car, grouped them in order of what a person would assemble first, then second, and so on. From this, Metz created 14 sets of packaged parts, starting with the frame and tools by which to construct the car. The next boxed shipment contained the axles and springs, followed by a box with the hood and radiator. Then the body parts, then on and on, with the engine shipped in the 12th container.
He then appropriately named his car the Metz Plan
