Cove lighting, modern windows and all new appointments have modernized Security National's interior. The bank will hold open house all day Thursday and Friday to show customers and guests the results of its large-scale remodeling and redecorating program.
Gaslight-style fixtures and old fashioned tellers "cages" were high style in January, 1922, when Security National Bank Savings and Trust Company, 312 North Eighth st., first opened for business.
Mercantile Trust Company observes its one-hundredth anniversary with a special flag-raising and luncheon ceremony. From left are Kenton R. Cravens, president of the bank; Hord Hardin, chairman of the Executive Committee; Mayor Raymond R. Tucker, congratulating Sidney Maestre, chairman of the board, and Gale F. Johnston, vice chairman of the board.
A total of 7500 safe deposit boxes were holsted out of the basement of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company yesterday and moved to the Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trust Company, Eighth and Locust streets, where the new Mercantile Trust Company, a merger of the two banks, will open Tuesday. Armed police and bank guards surround one load of the boxes just after a portable crane had hoisted them from the Mississippi Valley basement through a hole cut in the sidewalk on Broadway at Olive street.
Free meals are served to the bank's employees in the spacious dining room on the seventh floor of its Seventh Street Building. Meals include salads, desserts, and plentiful serving of vegetables and meat.
In Addition to the 100 police who answered the holdup alarm, thousands of spectators were attracted to the scene at the Southwest Bank. The curious came to view the battleground long after the shooting was over.
Scene of the wild gun battle, where police shot it out with a gang of Chicago bandits trapped as they held up the Southwest Bank. Thousands of persons were attracted to the area.
Bank employees and customers poured out into the open air, weeping from the effects of tear gas bombs hurled into the building by police, as soon as the shooting was over.
The largest bank under one roof west of the Mississippi River, the Mercantile Trust Company, began operations yesterday, formed from the merger of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company and the Mississippi Valley Trust Company and located in the former's quarters in teh block bounded by Eighth and Seventh, Locust and St. Charles streets.
A wall of the old Telegraphers' National Bank Building forms a pile of debris after its sudden collapse during wrecking operations at the Broadway and Pine street site yesterday.
A for lease sign sits in the window of the building before it was remodeled into the United Bank and Trust Company. The site at 120 N. Broadway on the southeast corner of Broadway and Pine was previously the site of the former Telegrapher National Bank.
Jimmy is shown here serving Carol one of the first slices of the 5000-pound cake that was created to commemorate United Bank and Trust Company's eightieth birthday.
Mayor Tucker puts his foot down--on the treadle of a 100-year-old sewing machine which is part of an exhibit of rare Americana at the Mercantile Trust Company, Eighth and Locust Streets. W.L. Hemingway (left) chairman of the executive committee, and Gale F. Johnston, president, were on hand for a preview of the week-long exhibit which opens today.
One million dollars in cash and about $2,000,000 in bonds were moved under heavy guard early yesterday from the Mississippi Valley Trust Company to the Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Company. The picture shows sacks of coins being carried from an armored money truck to the Eighth Street entrance of Mercantile-Commerce. The two banks have consolidated as the Mercantile Trust Company, which will
Kenton R. Cravens (second from left), president of Mercantile Trust Company, St. Louis, is shown presenting three bank employees with 21-year service pins awarded at a banquet at Hotel Statler last night, honoring them and other veteran staff members, directors and annuitants. The banquet is an annual affair of the 21 Club, the bank's service organization. From left, Arthus E. Poth, Mr. Cravens, Charles B. Shapard and Harrison E. Coerver.
Richard D. Guth (left), a Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis assistant cashier with a record of half a century of service, was presented with a watch by Paul J. Harbaugh, president of the 21 Club, the bank's service organization, at a banquet honoring veteran employees at the Statler Hotel March 21.
Mercantile Trust Company honors veteran employees upon retirement. The men are, from left: William J. Dalton, Herbert E. Spielman, Frank H. Hummer, Harry W. Kelle, Gale F. Johnston, vice president of the bank's board and host at the retirement luncheon; Thomas A. Healey, Claude J. Cour, Nathan H. Parker, and John H. Sessler.
Prizes in the form of savings account, were awarded yesterday in the Safety Slogan Contest of the State Bank & Trust Co. of Wellston, which was open to grade-school children. From left, Mayor Leo Hayes of Wellston, handed the passbook recording the $35 first prize to Glen Curtis Feeney, 1397 Clara ave.; Barbara Alberici, winner of the $15 second prize; Adele Hyman, winner of the $5 fourth prize, and Philip C. Kopitsky, chairman of the board of the bank. Verda Bonds, winner of the $10 third prize, was not present. In additon, 35 $1 prizes were awarded.