Drive-through banking was a big deal, 50 years ago

Drive-through banking was a big deal…50 years ago, Yesterday in La Crosse.
 
In September of 1967, an ad in the Tribune asked “What serves you with real people, at four drive-up windows, loves to say ‘Yes,’ and gives away peanuts?”  It was a promotion for the grand opening of drive-up lanes at the 1st National Bank at 5th and King.  There’s still a bank with drive-through lanes at that spot…but now, it’s Wells Fargo.  
 
Michigan Governor George Romney was running for president in the fall of ’67, and made a remark in a TV interview which experts blamed for ruining his campaign.  Romney had supported the war in Vietnam, but told a Detroit TV host that military leaders had given him a “brainwashing” to get him to back the war.  After the “brainwashing” comment, Romney’s poll numbers dropped below 20% and never recovered.  
 
Jerry Lewis got his own weekly show on NBC that September.  Other shows that appealed to a younger audience included “The Monkees,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “Lost in Space”…and “Batman” with Adam West, which added Yvonne Craig as Batgirl to the cast that fall.
 
Holy women’s lib!  Fifty years ago, Yesterday in La Crosse.