The other day, a reader wondered about some construction activity at an odd-looking building on the northwest corner of Broad & Tasker. We’d noticed this building in the past and remember it as a WIC office, but always assumed that it was built for some other purpose.

In the past. Hilarious that Google Maps blurred a face in the mural

We did some research, which showed that the building went up in the late 1960s as a branch of Continental Bank. A Hidden City story tells us about the founding of (more…)