Featured Large framed photo of a bank interior - interesting!

Davey, do you still deposit your pocket money there.

 

This is where I banked as a kid, which at the time was a branch of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn. Looks Deco, so I guess it was built in the 20s. I don't remember the inside too well, but do recall that it was nice.

What I remember very clearly was standing at the corner outside watching John Kennedy waving to everyone as his motorcade went by during his campaign for President.

 

Good one, Messi!

 

They weight coinage here too, when someone is depositing rolls, or at least they used to. Loose mixed coinage went through a sorter. These days they can't really weigh the coins any more, since they keep changing what goes into them. Banks don't have coin counters for transactions with the public either. (sigh) One more source of childhood fun gone.

 

Well, I was in banking from the late 70's until 2006. Even spent some time managing the branches of one, so I had to know everything the tellers did. Never saw a scale for weighing coins, rolled or loose. Yes, we kept track of which rolls were deposited by which customer - but the rolls were opened later and counted, just in case. More often than not they were correct. Biggest "problem" was Canadian pennies.

 

It stopped being a problem when our buck was worth $1.06 US !!

Now it's below 80 cents....but no more pennies.....Can or US !!

 

I know you don't have pennies any more, but we still do.

 

Yes you do......but we no longer find any of yours in our pocket change !

Silver still shows up monthly.....for those of us old types still using cash !

 

I miss Canadian pennies.(LOL)

 

I have about 50 or so Canadian pennies that ended up in my change,also some dimes and quarters .

 

Use em next time you come up here on vacation !!

( off topic )
Hi Shiloh !!! Nice ta see ya gal !!
Kardi put up a horse print in " ART " , u must see !!

 

WOW!!!

 

I used to keep a ziploc in my driver's door pouch to hold OH! Ca Na Da change I had left over, or came across, for eventual use 'up there'. Haven't been up for awhile though...
Yes! Good to 'see' Shiloh again!

 

In New England, we still get Canadian coins. The Cultural Center of Cape Cod is in an old bank.

 

There's also a realty agency downtown that was a bank. The manager uses the vault as his office

 

I was tempted to open my art gallery in a bank on a trendy street, but alas , they wanted $10,000 a month ......in 1990 dollars.

 

Yikes!!!!

 

That's what I said....in not so many words...

 

From Jonathan at MARTINS BANK ARCHIVE: Hi - this is Martins Bank, 43 Spring Gardens Manchester, the Manchester District office of the bank. You can see much more of it and nearly 1000 other branches on our site at www.martinsbank.co.uk . Thanks so much to Batman2000 for getting in touch with us, and we will be running a feature on this photo in the NEWS section of our site very soon.

 

Welcome!