1960 First National Bank building postcard

Recently this was the Wells Fargo building at 835 E Levee which was sold to Cameron County for $2.3 million is now being prepared to become county offices which will include the tax-assessor's office and County Clerk's Office services. Hopefully it will take on a whole new look from what we last saw?

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It is a six-story building containing 1,000,000 cubic feet of space, on Levee between 8th and 9th Streets, Brownsville, Texas. Exterior constructed of Georgia White Marble and Minnesota Granite and interior of walnut paneling. Exterior and interior colors blend with flowers and shrubs native to the area. Every modern banking convenience and facility.

First National Bank Brownsville, Texas postcard was copied off Ebay as was the description written above from the back of the card but you can see what is hand-written on the back
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When this was Wells Fargo Bank the lobby had a nice photo-mural-collage of historical images that was a real nice piece of work I even took photos but I am not going to look for them now. I was kind enough to ask permission to photograph it and they kindly escorted me around to see that I was only photographing the mural which had to be done in sections because it wrapped around the foyer or opening which allows you to look up or down from first or second floor in the lobby. They also created another one for the bank on Ruben Torres Blvd and Central Blvd which includes the streets namesake as it's focal point and as we can see in addition to being a state representative he was also a veteran and his brother Rene Torres (who contributes many historical articles to this blog) says he also loved baseball but who didn't back in the day, right?

Okay that's all I don't have anything else to say on this blog post.