First Federal Savings and Loan of Orlando had the locations above back in 1965. The bank was successful until the savings and loan crash in the late 1980s and the bank was gone by 1990. I know three of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a 1980 ‘Sun Bank’ money envelope I picked up 40+ years ago and now part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. Below is the flip side of the envelope. Today ‘Sun Bank’ eventually became ‘SunTrust’. In 2019, the bank merged[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an advertisement from the November 10th, 1975 edition of the Palm Beach Post of First Federal of Lake Worth’s announcement of being closed the next day, Veteran’s Day. #VeteransDay #VEteran #Advertising #Advertisement #Bank #Banking #FloridaBank #Floridaveterans #LakeWorth #History #FloridaHistory
This advertisement is from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 15th, 1958. The ad is for the Palmer First National Bank and Trust Company of Sarasota. The Palmer Bank was founded by the early Palmer pioneer family. Since 1924 the bank stood[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Downtown Fort Myers in 1925. There’s the Lee County Bank, which had the post office in inside at the time. The Edison Theatre played silent movies. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Fort Myers’ by Marian Godown & Alberta Rawchuck. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the cover of a coloring book celebrating The First National Bank of Tampa, ‘The Tallest Building in Florida”. Below is the back cover. Below that are a couple inside pages. There is no date on the publication, but I’d[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an undated postcard of the Clearwater Federal Savings building in Largo. This is amongst the many, many, many independent banks now gobbled up by the international banking system. Just by seeing the current view of the building available using[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a matchbook from the old Florida Bank of Commerce in Clearwater from the 1970s. Today there is another set of banks with the same name but unrelated in Central Florida. New banks will often pick up names of other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…