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Bank customer in car using "snorkel" depository, Seattle, March 30, 1956
As the oldest customer of the Seattle office of the Bank of California, Judge Kenneth Mackintosh made the first deposit in the bank's new "snorkel" sidewalk installation. The "snorkel" curb teller was designed for customers to pull up to the window in their car. A teller was stationed at an underground office, able to see the customer (and vice versa)…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.01
Date:1956
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Emerald City Bank, formerly Liberty Bank, June 20, 1988
Emerald City Bank was a short-lived successor to Liberty Bank, the first principally Black-owned bank in Seattle. Liberty Bank was founded by a group of leading figures in Seattle’s Black community in partnership with Japanese and Jewish community leaders from the Central Area. It opened on May 31, 1968 with 518 stakeholders, most of whom were Black people of limited…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.05
Date:1988
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Magnolia State Bank, Seattle, August 7, 1953
The Magnolia State Bank, organized, staffed, and wholly owned and directed by residents of Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood, opened for business at 2231 32nd Avenue West on December 15, 1948. Some time in the late 1950s, the bank became the Magnolia branch of Peoples National Bank of Washington.This photograph of Magnolia State Bank was taken the day after a lone thief…
ID Number:2000.107.165.12.02
Date:1953
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Woman using Peoples Bank home banking program, September 20, 1984
In 1984 sixty customers of Peoples Bank began a one-year trial of the bank's experimental new home-banking system. For a $7.50 monthly fee and a charge for each transaction, the customers could pay bills, transfer funds, check account balances, and even play a few video games on a home banking system available 24 hours a day, using their home computers.…
ID Number:2000.107.165.14.02
Date:1984
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Peoples Bank and Trust Company building, Seattle, March 24, 1934
This image shows the opening of the new building of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, which took over the building from the defunct Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association. Built in the early 1920s at 300 Pike Street in downtown Seattle, the building was later demolished and the site has been occupied since 1985 by the Century Square Office…
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.01
Date:1934
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Prudential Mutual Savings Bank after robbery, Seattle, November 24, 1954
In this image taken outside of the Prudential Mutual Savings Bank at Third Avenue and Spring Street in downtown Seattle, spectators gather after a robber escaped from the bank with $2,500. Signs in image: Fern Hotel; Texan Hotel; Tavern; Toy's Cafe, Good Food; Ewing and Clark Real Estate ServiceCaption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, November 24, 1954, page 2
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.02
Date:1954
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Seattle City Light rate protest outside SeaFirst building, January 9, 1979
In this image taken outside the Seattle First National Bank building in downtown Seattle, demonstrators gathered to protest a new building code allowing commercial and industrial firms to pay less as they use larger amounts of electricity. By contrast, residential users paid more as they used more under Seattle City Light's rate structures. Jim Wurzer, left, dressed as SeaFirst Bank…
ID Number:2000.107.165.16.01
Date:1979
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SeaFirst self-serve banking desk, Seattle, August 5, 1993
In August 1993, Seattle's SeaFirst Bank opened its first self-service Banker-on-Call center at its Westlake Park branch. It included a video conferencing system that allowed customers to talk directly with a banker about loans, credit cards, new accounts, and other bank services.Here, SeaFirst vice president and branch manager Jeri Lee Jump (standing) and personal banker Reid Warner test the Banker-on-Call…
ID Number:2000.107.165.17.01
Date:1993
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SeaFirst motor branch, Seattle, August 29, 1953
In 1953, Seattle First National Bank opened their first Motor Branch, a facility providing drive-in access as well as two walk-up teller windows. The branch, seen here, was built in downtown Seattle at Third Avenue and Columbia Street. Signs in image: Dexter Horton Building, Seattle-First National Bank Main Office; Hoge Building, The Canadian Bank of CommerceCaption information source: The Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.165.17.02
Date:1953
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Seattle National Bank building, Seattle, June 17, 1920
Seattle experienced a period of downtown commercial expansion from 1902 to 1920 due to local economic prosperity after the Klondike Gold Rush and in tandem with explosive population growth and suburban neighborhood development. During this era, a concentration of banking enterprises and department stores were built along Second Avenue from Cherry Street to Pike Street.The Beaux Arts style building seen…
ID Number:2000.107.165.18.01
Date:1920