Three men, armed with machine guns, robbed the Bank of America on Melrose and Bronson shortly before it closed on March 2nd. No one was physically injured and the bandits escaped with $6,100.
When robbers came into the Melrose and Bronson branch of Bank of America with a machine gun, a sawed off shotgun and an automatic pistol service station operator Harry B. Elliott called the police, but the police did not get there in time before the bandits escaped with $6100.
Bank of America executives photographed standing in front of a new bank branch in Santa Barbara at the corner of State and Canon Perdido streets. From left to right: Dwight L. Clarke, District Vice-President; A. H. (Attilio Henry) Giannini, Chairman, General Executive Committee; Warner Edmonds, Vice-President in charge of Santa Barbara branch; and A. P. (Amadeo Peter) Giannini, bank founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors.
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
View of a Bank of America branch on a street corner. To the left is a branch of Macmarr Stores and a Kress Stores branch. The name "Bank of America" was established circa 1930 and the Macmarr Stores company merged with Safeway in 1930.