Occasionally a customer still walks into a U.S. Bank branch in Orange County with a passbook from Downey Savings & Loan.
After completing a transaction, the teller will write out deposit amounts or other details by hand in the small document. A relic of the days before records were kept electronically, the passbook is one of the last vestiges of Downey, a lender that had made mortgage loans to Southern Californians for more than five decades.
J.P. Perfili, senior vice president and region manager, as seen through a 45-year-old vault at a U.S. Bank branch in Mission Viejo. He was an executive with Downey Savings & Loan, a large thrift in Newport Beach that failed in late 2008 during a wave of big bank failures.
CINDY YAMANAKA, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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