Crocker National Bank was a United States bank headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was acquired by and merged into Wells Fargo Bank in 1986. “Banker” redirects here. ... Wells Fargo NYSE: WFC is a financial services company in the United States, with consumer finance subsidiaries doing business in Canada, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Caribbean. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History

The bank traces its history to the Woolworth National Bank in San Francisco. Charles Crocker, one of The Big Four of the Central Pacific Railroad and who constructed America's First Transcontinental Railroad, acquired controlling interest in Woolworth for his son William Crocker. The bank was renamed Crocker Woolworth National Bank, later Crocker First National Bank and finally Crocker National Bank. subject_name=Charles Crocker| image_name=ccrocker. ... Alternate meaning: The Big Four (novel) The Big Four were the chief entrepreneurs in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. ... The Gov. ... This article refers to a railroad built in the United States between Omaha and Sacramento completed in 1869. ...

On April 21, 1975, Emily Harris, along with other members of the Symbionese Liberation Army robbed the Carmichael, California branch of the Crocker Bank of $15,000. Harris fatally shot civilian Myrna Opsahl for responding too slowly to Harris' demand for everybody in the building to lie down on the ground. Emily Harriss 1975 mugshot. ... The Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.) was a self-styled urban guerilla warfare group that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army. ... Carmichael is a census-designated place located in Sacramento County, California. ... Myrna Opsahl was a church worker and murder victim of the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army. ...

Crocker National Bank was purchased by the British financial organisation Midland Bank in 1981 but after a series of financial losses it was sold on to Wells Fargo Bank in 1986. Crocker's president and over eighty vice presidents left the bank after the merger.^{[citation needed]} The Midland Bank (now part of HSBC) opened as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Wells Fargo NYSE: WFC is a financial services company in the United States, with consumer finance subsidiaries doing business in Canada, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Caribbean. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Trivia

• In the 1970's Crocker ran a television commercial featuring the song We've Only Just Begun which was later rerecorded by The Carpenters. The ad showed a young married couple moving into their first house, financed by a mortgage from Crocker.

• Scott Adams worked at Crocker during his first years in the business world. It is said to have inspired the evil Bank of Ethel in Adams' Dilbert comic strip.