Crocker National Bank

Charles Crocker, who was one of The Big Four of the Central Pacific Railroad and who constructed America's first transcontinental railroad, acquired a controlling interest in Woolworth for his son William Henry Crocker.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Crocker cultivated a reputation for customer service and convenience, including expanded hours.

One early television commercial showed a young businessman confidently using the machine, while speaking to it as if it were a person.

[2] On April 21, 1975, a Carmichael, California branch of the bank in the Sacramento area was robbed by several members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

SLA member Emily Harris accidentally fired her shotgun (as she later said in a plea deal) and killed Myrna Opsahl, a 42-year-old customer and mother of four.