1928 Time cover featuring Giannini

Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), born in San Jose, California, was the founder of the Bank of America. 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Nickname: Capital of Silicon Valley Official website: http://www. ... Typical Bank of America consumer banking center Bank of America (BofA) NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 , based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the third largest commercial bank in the United States of America, measured in assets, and the fourth-largest company in the world by the 2005 Forbes Global 2000. ...

Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in a former San Francisco, California saloon on 17 October 1904. Deposits on that first day totaled $8,780. An early difficulty to overcome was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Giannini was forced to run his bank from a plank across two barrels in the street for a time. Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ... Location within Italy Genoa (Italian Genova, Genoese (dialect of Ligurian) Zena, French Gênes, German Genua, Spanish Génova, Galician Xénova) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Emigration. ... The Bank of Italy was founded in San Francisco, California in 1904 by Amadeo Giannini. ... Nickname The City by the Bay; The City That Knows How; Golden Mountain (historic Chinese name) Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Government City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Geographical characteristics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 600. ... Tourists sit outside a bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand A bar in Switzerland. ... October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake at San Francisco, California on the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

By 1916 Giannini had expanded and opened several other branches. It became the Bank of America in 1928 and continued under Giannini's chairmanship until his retirement in 1945. Prior to Giannini's creation of the Bank of America network, most banks were limited to a single city or region. By expanding to many regions, Giannini created a banking network that was able to easily handle local economic crises. 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Typical Bank of America consumer banking center Bank of America (BofA) NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 , based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the third largest commercial bank in the United States of America, measured in assets, and the fourth-largest company in the world by the 2005 Forbes Global 2000. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Night view of Taipei City. ... Region can be used to mean either: any more or less well-defined geographical area of a country or continent, defined by geography, culture or history in political geography, an administrative subdivision of a country or of the European Union. ...

Giannini is credited as the inventor of many modern banking practices. Most notably, Giannini was one of the first bankers to offer banking services to middle-class Americans, rather than simply the upper class. The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... The term upper class refers to a group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. ...

A middle school in San Francisco is named after Giannini. Middle school, (Intermediate/Junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

Movies

The American classic "It's a Wonderful Life" is party based on the life of A.P. Giannini.