Gone but not forgotten: days when banks kept their names for any length of time.
Here in Chicago, my dad's Wachovia account is now a Wells Fargo one (thanks for the free lunch and the chance to take my picture in a stage coach at your grand re-opening this past weekend) and my National City points are now being tracked by PNC (proving that you can take the boy out of Pennsylvania but you can't stop Pennsylvania from eventually being involved in the boy's finances).
Those minor changes have nothing on the account I once held back home that started at Peoples National Bank (right across from the McDonald's on the east end of town), that, if explained in Biblical lineage terms, begat Meridian, which begat Corestates, which begat First Union, which eventually begat with Wachovia, which is now all begatted again as Wells Fargo. By the way, this only works if begat stands for "bought out/efficiently found a way to charge lots more fees/got hooked up to support capitalism/absorbed/terminated tons of employees".
Do you think somewhere in middle America, Mr. Mooney still runs his own bank?
Days of yore when I could actually use all of my checks before they became obsolete due to bank mergers, you are missed.
SEASON REVIEWS OF "THE LUCY SHOW":
http://www.tv.com/the-lucy-show/show/1086/episode.html?tag=list_header;paginator;All&season=All
FROM THAT BASTION OF USELESS DATA, A LIST OF US BANK MERGERS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_mergers
GALE GORDON (MR. MOONEY) at the MACABRE "FIND-A-GRAVE" WEBSITE:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6455
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