Postcard 34 First National Bank Building, Morris, NY

Rene M Elliott
I have always wondered if that Legion hall sign was a Coca Cola sign that once hung in front of Gage's? The wadded up flag at right does not show the star field (48 vs 50), the car headlight (no license plate, to make it harder) I would guess c. 1948.

Bob Thomas
I thought that was part of the awning not a flag.

Rene M Elliott
Bob Thomas I wasn't sure which it was, until I looked at the tip of the pole, looks like a gold star? and the flag is caught on something, such as when tossed around by the wind?

Bob Thomas
Yes -- does look like a flag now that I see that.

Rene M Elliott
I think this could be at the same time/series of postcards?

Rene M Elliott
I'd be tempted to say that's the same Buick approaching in the left hand lane? The reason I bought this off eBay years ago is I believe it is the only image I have seen of the 1926 Republic fire truck that H.H. Linn helped the village acquire, it came ...See
this link
http://ourtownnews.info/morris-ny/postcard-31-west-main-st

Seth Birdsall
The staircase on the side of the building next to it jumps right out at me.

Rene M Elliott
It appears to be a 1950 Chevrolet at bottom right. So maybe the same postcard series as the postcard view of the fire house and firetrucks I posted earlier?

Renie M Elliott
My father figures the building between the wooden section with porch behind the bank, that had the drive thru alleyway (E.M. Sloan hardware store c. 1900 picture? later where Klindt's lived when they first moved here c. 1925?) and the "Strawberry & Vine" gift shop, burnt c. 1945? Where you now access the parking area behind the bank.

Rene M Elliott
Wilsons had the second story apartment on the right, over the Grand Union store (you can just see the "GR" of the sign).

Art Hoag
I opened my first savings account here!!!

Fran Klindt
The car looks to me like a 1946 Buick with fog lights. The bumper contours seem to match the Buick of that era. Spencer's Barber Shop was also in the building behind the bank. When I was a kid, first the Wright family and then the Dave Perry family lived in the upstairs building next to the bank.

Rene M Elliott
Thanks! You are definitely right, 1946 Buick. Yes I was trying to place that flared out bumper end. Any idea on when that building behind the bank burnt?

Diana Bourgeois Birdsall
Yes, my grandmother Pauline Wright's family lived there.

Bob Thomas
Here's a 1946 Buick at nearly the same angle. You can click on the link to see the car better.
https://ccpublic.blob.core.windows.net/cc-temp/listing/92/4426/4665162-1...

Rene M Elliott
This I believe was from when the third floor was in use for public entertainment, after Kenyon purchase date building.

Another view of the bank -- from 1974 after Wilber National Bank took over.

I know that people have wanted to see this side of the bank with the apartments attached. Thank Mary Valentine for letting me scan her postcard.

Candy Turner wrote:
Mom and Dad moved to the apartment from Water Street when I was 6 weeks old in 1952. Dad was their janitor. He got up every morning, including weekends, at 3 a.m. to clean .He could go downstairs to our basement through a door into the bank's basement and up some stairs to the bank! When the new bank took over,they gave my parents 30 days to vacate the apartment as they were going to tear it down.My father never got any recognition for over 20 years of working there. I remember when the bank alarm would go off in the middle of the night.Dad would grab Bill's baseball bat and head down the cellar stairs with my Mom yelling," you be careful Harlow! " LOL.