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In the early twentieth century, the
Commercial Banking and Trust Company was at the northeast corner of
Columbus Avenue and East Market Street. In 1922, as a promotion, the bank offered customers a booklet of canning labels to use in marking hand canned fruits, vegetables and preserves.
The booklet described the “Emergency
Shelf,” which homemakers could keep
stocked with home canned goods, to be used in an emergency or if the homemaker
found herself quite busy on any given day.
Recipes were also included:
There are several gummed labels still
in excellent condition in the booklet, now in the collections of the Sandusky
Library Archives Research Center.
In 1923, the Commercial Banking and
Trust Company opened a new building at the northeast corner
of Washington Row and Columbus Avenue. Unfortunately, the bank failed during the Great Depression.
2 comments:
Where there other businesses there after 1923? I thought I remembered going into that bank as a child with my grandmother, around 1965-1970?
After the Commercial Bank went out of business in the 1930s, the property was operated by the Western Security Bank until around 1980, when it was taken over by Bancohio.
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