DEPOSITORS NATIONAL BANK DRIVE-IN
Depositors Bank branch, 05.28.57
(Courtesy Herald-Sun)
It's the kind of mid-century commercial history that is hard to nail down, but I think the Depositors National Bank Drive-thru at Foster and Seminary Streets may have been the first bank with a drive-thru in Durham. The Depositors National Bank was the 1933 successor of the First National Bank at Corcoran and West Main.
Depositors Bank branch looking west towards Foster St., 05.28.57
(Courtesy Herald-Sun)
Depositors Bank branch, 05.28.57
(Courtesy Herald-Sun)
It's the kind of mid-century commercial history that is hard to nail down, but I think the Depositors National Bank Drive-thru at Foster and Seminary Streets may have been the first bank with a drive-thru in Durham. The Depositors National Bank was the 1933 successor of the First National Bank at Corcoran and West Main.
"Heavy Rains Cause Cave-In at Depositors Drive-In Bank" - 06.05.57
(Courtesy Herald-Sun)
"Heavy Rains Cause Cave-In at Depositors Drive-In Bank" - 06.05.57
[Was this really the support system for this parking lot?]
(Courtesy Herald-Sun)
The bank building was still around in the 1980s. I'm not sure if this became an NCNB branch when Depositors became NCNB in 1960, and when it stopped being a bank branch.
1980s aerial from the CCB building.
I presume the building was torn down for the construction of the YMCA, but I'm not sure about that either. Its location is currently the Y parking lot.
Looking southeast, 10.22.10
Find this spot on a Google Map.
Posts
3 comments:
I do believe this was an NCNB ultimately, as they had a downtown branch, this branch, and the newly opened Lakewood Shopping Center office in 1960. I had thought Ellen Cassily's building was the NCNB, for I had a City map (compliments of NCNB) that was here in the house when we got here in 1998. Did her building end up being a S&L?
Anon
Ellen Cassilly's building was a Home Savings and Loan branch; more here.
the two buildings do resemble each other! Same architect?
Post a Comment