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Crime Scene: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 4:27pm.
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1920. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Sandy Spring Bank Robbery." The First National Bank in Sandy Spring, where on April 26, 1920, seven armed robbers killed one employee, locked the rest in the vault and made off with $5,000 in cash and securities. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
Too Many Indians
Submitted by Mal Fuller on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 12:37pm.
$5,000 divided by seven is roughy $714 each which bought more in 1920 than it does now.
Still There
Submitted by CGW on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 9:06am.
Sandy Spring Bank is still in business with some thirty branches from Annapolis into No. Va., including the building seen here. I haven't been in, but I suspect security arrangements have been improved somewhat.
Tired
Submitted by Vintagetvs on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 5:22pm.
You just don't see many tires inside a Bank these days unless they're attached to a car. I wonder if they were collateral?
[Or rubber checks. - Dave]
Still there and still a bank
Submitted by CBinDC on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 4:54pm.
Sandy Spring is still an independent bank and that original building in use as a bank here is the streetview
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And here's a site for some history about the bank and Sandy Spring.
A Future President Spotted
Submitted by jalexei on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 4:49pm.
The white flyer posted above the chair on the left wall notes one Herbert Hoover will be speaking at the Swarthmore College commencement.
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