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SCCutler

SCCutler

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I found this article on-line, getting all fired-up about an old woman (if you call 100 years old, "old"), who has a bank account which dates back to 1913, opened by her Daddy...

AP Wire said:
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio woman who just turned 100 years old has taken customer loyalty to the extreme: She's still using a bank savings account that's been around almost as long as she has, since the year before World War I.
June Gregg recently mentioned to a friend that her account is the same one her father opened for her in January 1913, when she wasn't even a year-and-a-half old. The friend told the people at Gregg's small-town bank in southern Ohio.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...A&SECTION=DEFAULT&TEMPLATE=ENTERTAINMENT.html


Big deal.

I have an account at the Clinton Savings Bank of Clinton, Mass, a bank which began operations in 1851, and my bank account number is...

...1.

That's right, the first account ever opened at Clinton Savings is mine, inherited through the family line. It was originally (I believe) the property of Noah Lincoln, and I inherited it from a Great Aunt or a Great-Great Aunt, something like that, back in 1976 or 1977.

Not a lot of money in it, but still kinda cool...
 
well spike, i guess you can always say that you're number 1!
 
SCCutler said:
I have an account at the Clinton Savings Bank of Clinton, Mass, a bank which began operations in 1851, and my bank account number is...

...1.

That's right, the first account ever opened at Clinton Savings is mine, inherited through the family line. It was originally (I believe) the property of Noah Lincoln, and I inherited it from a Great Aunt or a Great-Great Aunt, something like that, back in 1976 or 1977.

Not a lot of money in it, but still kinda cool...
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And if you keep it long enough, you'll be able to pay for dinner at Milliway's.

:D :confused:
 
SCCutler said:
I have an account at the Clinton Savings Bank of Clinton, Mass
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That's right up the road from me. In fact, they just built a new branch about 1 mile from my house.

Remember to keep it active. I just received a notice from my bank that any account left inactive for three years must be turned over to the People's Republik of Taxachusetts.
 
Cool deal, Spike. When my father was born in 1918 his grandfather(for whom I [Lawreston] was named) opened a savings account at the local bank, in my Dad's name. It was account #17. Now Dad was one who never had a checking account, never borrowed a cent from anyone; and when it was new Harley-Davidson or automobile time the currency was in the leather clip in his shirt pocket.

As happens, the small town bank changed hands over the decades, many times, always to a larger organization, the most recent having been Bank of America. Dad just kept depositing his income into the account, accessing moolah when needed. After one of the bank's acquisitions, back in the early 1970s, Dad received a call asking him to come into the bank. It seemed his account hadn't been punctually updated in his bankbook for many years. This was still in the era of data processing being of "pen and ledger" method, hand-done. It took five days for the account to be brought up to current status via pen and ink method. The earned interest alone was phenomenally higher than the last posted balance shown in Dad's bank book, and the latter was far from a moderate amount. Ah, the old days. When Dad was confined in the late 90s and I was power of attorney, I'd stick his Lockheed-Martin retirement check and social security check into an envelope, mark it to Attention: Arlene, and slide it under the door at the bank(if on a Saturday or Sunday). Arlene had been at the bank for several decades; but that was when service was personal, not a bureaucracy.

HR
 
With the bank being all digital behind the scenes these days, didn't they change the account number to 00000001? ;)
 
Steve Foley said:
That's right up the road from me. In fact, they just built a new branch about 1 mile from my house.

Remember to keep it active. I just received a notice from my bank that any account left inactive for three years must be turned over to the People's Republik of Taxachusetts.
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which is Bull. When you look at the list and see stuff like the Boston Red Sox, YOU KNOW the bank does jack to find the owner of the property. More to the point... Try to collect said property AFTER Massachusetts gets it.
my $50 to verizon went that way. Considering I've ALWAYS been a verizon customer, still am, how could they not find me. After I read it in the state's list, I sent in the appropriate documentation and saw NOTHING.
 
Spike, will I have the honor of reading about you online, like I read about the woman you speak of?

Maybe you can get a "gift of 5%" too.
 
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