As a part of its promotional campaign, the bank gave "Crocker" Spaniel plush toys to parents who opened an account in the early s. It was also one of the first California banks to offer automated teller machine service.
One early television commercial showed a young businessman confidently using the machine, while speaking to it as if it were a person. He was then followed by an elderly woman approaching it for the first time, and greeting it with a very uncertain "Hello. Crocker National Bank was purchased by the British financial institution Midland Bank in , but after a series of financial losses it was sold on to Wells Fargo Bank in Crocker's executive vice president and two-thirds of the top 70 executives lost their jobs because of the merger.
A Carmichael, California branch of the bank was robbed by several members of the Symbionese Liberation Army on April 21, This was later re-recorded by The Carpenters and sold as a single: it became the duo's signature song. The ads showed three pivotal moments in a young couple's life: their wedding, a husband's first day at a new job, and the first home move for a family with a small boy.
The commercials ended with the tag line "You've got a long way to go. We'd like to help you get there. The Crocker Bank. San Francisco, California in a wall display of the Crocker Bank history. Scott Adams worked at Crocker during his first years in the business world. Another sign appears in the Clint Eastwood movie Sudden Impact as well as the film Koyaanisqatsi during "The Grid" sequence Charles Crocker was an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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No obstacle was going to get in the way of Crocker or the progress of Capitalism. Nicholas Yung was a native of Germany who had arrived in the U. He established himself in the mortuary business and in he and his wife bought a corner lot at the top of the California Street Hill and built a modest home. In those days the treacherous climb made Yung's hilltop home seem almost isolated and removed from the hustle and bustle of Gold Rush San Francisco. The location offered Yung and his family a stunning view: to the north, they could look out to the Golden Gate; to the east there was the Bay and the Berkeley Hills; and to the south they could watch the sprawling, teeming city below.
All around the house was a great flood of fresh air and sunlight. The newfound accessibility turned the once remote California Street Hill into San Francisco's most exclusive real estate area. Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins both built palatial mansions on what had become -- almost overnight -- Nob Hill. Charles Crocker, never one to be outdone, planned to build his house even higher up the hill than his rivals. He planned a grand spectacle of his wealth and power including a foot tower from which he could view the goings-on of San Francisco.
Money, of course, was no object to Crocker -- but Nicholas Yung who owned the northeast corner of Crocker's block was. Crocker made several offers to buy out Yung at the market price but Yung refused. As progress on the mansion continued, Crocker became more and more desperate to have Yung and his house removed. When dynamite was used to level the craggy hilltop for his home, Crocker apparently ordered his workmen to aim the flying debris towards Yung's house.
But the undertaker held his ground. With the mansion just about completed, Crocker made one final attempt to buy Yung's property, doubling his original offer. Yung however, because of the beautiful view, the wishes of his family or his own sense of defiance and pride, refused Crocker yet again. This time the Railroad Baron had a plan: he ordered his workmen to construct a three-sided wood fence around Yung's house. The fence rose forty feet into the sky and the view, the sunshine, and the fresh air that the Yung's had enjoyed were all but completely taken away.
With only northern exposure left to them, the Yungs felt as if they were living at the bottom of a well. The fence was in place and the battles over it and what it represented were just beginning. Crocker's Spite Fence, as it was known, became one of The City's most popular sight-seeing attractions. People would ride the cable car to the top of Nob Hill to stare at and to talk about this symbol of Capitalist power over the "little man. The newspapers, echoing the ire of most San Franciscans, began calling the fence "Crocker's Crime.
Enter Denis Kearney.
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