A Total of 7500 Safe Deposit Boxes were hoisted 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.
Viewing amature photo exhibit in the lobby of the Mercantile Trust Company are Sidney Maestre chairman of the bank's executive committee, and Herman Orlick, assistant to the vice president.
On the North corner of the Mill Creek redevelopement area at Grand and Lindell blvd are city officials and officers of the Mercantile Commerce National Bank, an affiliate of the Mercantile Trust Company at 721 Locust st.
"For days after the fire, police maintained special details to keep the curious from the ruins. Then eight days later, the proud structure, once hailed for its graceful architectural lines and fort-like appearance, claimed six more lives when a wall fell on the adjoining St. Louis Seed Company building. Rest of walls were then levelled by dynamite."
Ten pretty high school graduates have been hired as pages by the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company to replace office boys promoted to fill vacancies created by older employes being called into the army and others who quit for defense jobs.
"Early check of Boatmen's Savings Institution depicted a riverboat which is the Boatmen's Bancshares' symbol today." "Twenty-seven years before Eads Bridge was to help open the Gateway to the West, George Knight Budd obtained a charter for Missouri's first private bank, the Boatmen's Saving Institution."
Pulling up to the bank kiosk, located on the curb in front of the St. Louis Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Co., customer places her bank book into a tray that will be carried to a teller under the sidewalk by a fast moving elevator.
City Bank, which moved into new quarters at 4981 West Pine recently will hold its official "Open House" for customers, neighbors and friends of the bank Wednesday, Thursday and Friday January 27-29.
Formal opening of the City Bankat I North Euclid was observed in a ceremony Monday at which Director of Public Saftey Joseph P. Sestric and President A. S. roth offciated.
The City bank lobby is on the first floor of a remodeled building at Euclid and Laclede. Buildin's two upper floors are now a commercial parking garage where customers can park free or use drive-in banking facilities.
