The location of the old North Side Bank, at 6605 West Florissant ave, in Jennings will be remodeled into Frank's Pizza Parlor. Author Martin Mayer maintains in his new book that banking will be done through Sears and American Express, and that doomed banks will become bowling alleys and pizza parlors.
The 1904 World's Fair is the subject of the mural, one of three painted for the Mutual Bank and Trust Company by John Sherman, St. Louis artist, shown here as he checked details of the painting.
Harrison F. Coerver, senior vice president of Mercantile Trust Company (left), points out his favorite snapshot to Herman A. Orlick, vice president, and Miss Shirley Wrigley, teller. The three are examining part of the National Newspaper Snapshot Contest winners display now being shown exclusively at Mercantile Trust through April 22.
The First of 20,000 slices from United Bank and Trust Company's monster eighteenth birthday cake was cut yesterday by Jimmy, a 3-year-old from St. Anne's Infant and Maternity Home, who looks to bank president Jack Srenco for moral support. Srenco is holding Carol, 2 1/2, while I.E. Goldstein, at right, holds Doris, 2 1/2. All of the children are from St. Anne's. Goldstein is chairman of the bank's Board of Directors.
At left is Sgt. John W. Long, running toward other officers not shown. Detectives grab suspect Kenneth M. Suiter outside Tower Grove Bank seconds after Suiter allegedly put his gun to the back of Captain John G. Walsh, posing as a bank guard, and took Walsh's unloaded revolver.
Fake hand granade rests in teller's drawer as Miss Judy Meek re-enacts the attempted holdup which she thwarted at the Lindell Trust Company. Reflections of investigators can be seen in the glass of her outside cage.