Growing up in Southern California, I always marveled at the lovely and elaborate murals on Home Savings bank buildings. I was always disappointed that my dad worked for other banks, so that we never had any excuse to visit.
Here's a cool article (h/t +Mary Oswell) on the artist behind them (and a lot of similar art). In this era of cheap, cardboard cut-out bank branches, it's a great reminder of a distant time when banks tried to convey prosperity and class for all their customers.
The Artist Who Beautified California Banks
Millard Sheets’s murals and artworks graced the facades and walls of numerous suburban banks in California in the 1950s as well as other buildings.
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