The autobank - forgotten progress of the sixties
05/23/2012
Those were the days when you could obviously get to your destination faster by car than by other means of transportation in big cities. The "Drive-in Bank" also dates back to this time. In 1962, a large-scale drive-in bank was opened on St. Peterstrasse.
Bank customers in a hurry could drive up and in by car and carry out their banking transactions at one of the eight counters from their cars. Thanks to "state-of-the-art facilities", a quick service was possible.
Well, the concept didn't catch on and the drive-in bank in the center of Zurich has disappeared again. What remains are memories and the pictures shown here, which, in addition to the bank, also give us a glimpse of the cars of yesteryear, from the BMW 503 to the Simca 1000 and the Volkswagen Beetle.
