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A patron of the Salida Building and Loan paid off a mortgage with this wheelbarrow load of silver dollars. Building and Loan officers (J. Ford White, C. H. Kelleher, President, Theo. M. Jacobs, Alice Chinn, Secretary/Treasurer) are shown on the way to deposit the silver dollars at First National Bank.
Alice Chinn Collection.
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The 40 & 8 Band passing by the First National Bank on F Street.
The titles and symbols of the Forty & Eight reflect its First World War origins. Americans were transported to the battle front on French trains within boxcars stenciled with a “40/8”, denoting its capacity to hold either forty men or eight horses. This uncomfortable mode of transportation was familiar to all who fought in the trenches; a common small misery among American soldiers...
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The First National Bank in Salida, Colorado was located at 201 F Street.
This building, erected in 1895, housed a fraternal hall of the Knights of Pythias on the second story and the First National Bank on the first story. The building was referred to as the Jones Block in early city directories, presumably after one of the founders of the First National Bank, E.B. Jones.
In 1889 the Salida News reported that the First National Bank would open...