For years Cleveland Press columnist Milt Widder conducted what historian John Vacha called "a one-man campaign in print for Cleveland Trust to clean up its sooty facade, often addressing his squibs publicly to bank president George Gund." The soot, of course, was a signature of a city–and a bank–built on heavy industry, but by the 1960s, with the first major wave of downtown revitalization underway, Cleveland Trust's seeming obliviousness to the appearance of the city's leading bank and its most prominent crossroads drew fire. In 1964, Gund ordered a thorough cleaning of his bank. | Creator: Clay Herrick | Date: 1964 | Source: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Clay Herrick
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Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections
