First National Bank in St. Louis proposed new store and office building at the southeast corner of Sixth and Locust streets is scheduled for completion on or around June 1, 1962.
One Centerre Plaza is an octagonally shaped skyscaper with bronze-tited, low-reflective glass. Chamfered corners maximize views and allo natural light to penetrate interior spaces.
"Two 'charter customers' of the bank of St. Louis drive up to one of the recently installed drive-in cashier's windows on the Lucas avenue side of the bank. Frederick B. von Harten and his sister, Miss Anne Eleanor von Harten, are accompanied by George L. Sullivan, the owner of the 1913 Ford. Mayor Raymond R. Tucker and Arthur Blumeyer, president of the bank, greet the customers."
"In the lobby of the Bank of St. Louis, which has been turned into a December Garden in honor of Missouri Botanical Garden, Jack G. Butler, right, shows a picture of Henry Shaw, founder of the garden, to Mrs. Lee I. Niedringhaus, president of the Friends of the Garden, and Henry Hitchcock, president of the Board of Trustees."
"Mrs. E. David Sullivan, 7613 Ravensridge, Shrewsbury, secretary at Bank of St. Louis, looks at a display of paintings, furniture, and other art by Siegfried Reinhardt. Painting at right is a self-portrait and throne-like chair is between paintings."
"These two tellers' machines at the Illinois State Bank, Quincy, Ill., are linked by telephone lines to the computer at Bank of St. Louis, more than 100 miles away. When a customer wishes to make a savings deposit, for example, the transaction keyed into one of these machines updates the depositor's account record stored in the computer within one-fourth of a second. Immediately, the savings
"The Many Talents of Siegfried Reinhardt" is the new display at Bank of St. Louis. 9th and Washington. Exhibit has paintings, sketches, furniture, textiles, stained glass and sculpture, all from the hands of Mr. Reinhardt, a St. Louisan and internationally known artist. Looking at display is Mrs. David Sullivan of Shrewsbury, secretary at the bank."
"On hand for the moving day for the Bank of St. Louis, which involved the transfer of nearly $500 million in currency and negotiable securties, were, from left, Charles Bellanca, a Brink's guard; J. W. Minton, president of the bank; Jack Butler, chairman of the bank's board of directors; Russell Williams and Kenneth Enns, Brink's guards."
"This huge crane hoisted a 4275-pound fan to the roof of the seven-story Bank of St. Louis Building, 901 Washington ave., yesterday for use in the bank's new central air conditioning system. The move was made by the H. W. Kroeger Erection Company."
"Minature doll houses, a holiday exhibit at Bank of St. Louis, 8th and Olive streets, is viewed Monday by Wilson School pupils Algela Lehmann, Veronica Worthy and Becky Young. Contributors to the collection include Globe-Democrat columnist Marian O'Brien."
"Claude Matthews, 8565 Ginger, a Southwestern Bell supervisor, and Mrs. Gloria Sullivan, checking department employe at the Bank of St. Louis, view sports cartoons by Amour Krupnik, Globe-Democrat artist. The display, in the bank's main floor lobby at Ninth and Washington, continues through April 28."
Pioneer Bank & Trust Company has initiated a program naming area high school students to a junior board of directors, which will meet monthly with executives from Pioneer Bank's management group to gain an understanding of the free enterprise system and the role a bank plays in its community.
