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.
The five story building on the corner was a gambling house half a century ago. Next door is shown a portion of a building where "Wilson's Minstrels" held forth. This spot eventually became the location of the Telegraphers National Bank.
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.
The United Bank and Trust Company is to occupy the old Franklin Bank, northeast corner of Broadway and Washington avenue, which has been vacant except for temporary tenants, since 1928.
West Condominiums Project to open soon. The project includes converting what was known as the ABCD apartments at 4 through 20 N. Kingshighway Bl. Into two- and three-bedroom condominiums, each with a view of Forest Park.
Revised plans to convert all 1,385 Audubon Park apartment units into a smaller number of condominium units were announced Monday night by the Jefferson Savings and Loan Association.
The building's interior has been gutted, and construction crews are busily working to meet the May 10 opening date of what is called St. Louis' first downtown rehabbed loft apartment project.
The old St. Louis National Bank Building, on the south west corner of Eighteenth and Olive streets, was bought at a receiver's auction sale yesterday for $25,000 by Conrad L. Schopp, real estate man and painter. Schopp said he plans to use the building for a real estate office, private art gallery and studio.
Before an extensive modernization program the Donaldson Court Apartment, on the northwest corner of Westgate avenue and Delmar boulevard, University City, suffered a loss of income because of its outmoded appearance and divided shops.
Useless but Required by Missouri's present bar on branch banking is this $30,000 hole-in-the-ground. Lindell Trust Company, 2745 North Grand Bl., is building the unproductive tunnel under the the street to make its new drive-in facility legal.
John H. Lashly, left, chairman of Lashly, Caruthers, Thies, Ravel & Hamel, and Mayor James F. Conway help lower the electronic time and temperature sign on the facade of the Mutual Bank Building. The building will be the new home of the Lashly, Caruthers, Thies, Ravel & Hamel law firm.
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.
Conversion of the south tower of downtown's Mansion House Center from an apartment building to a hotel has been proceeding for at least two months in violation of federal regulations, government officials acknowledge Wednesday.