Welcome to First Trust Bank, Central Avenue, Colonie, NY, which opened in 1959. In my life, three notable moments occurred in the lobby of this dreary joint and I remember them vividly. As a tyke, when I opened my first savings account, I got a little leather book of which I was much proud. In 1977, my father suffered a stroke there, a massive cardiac event that nearly took his life and, in 1972, I was party to a cheerier occasion. I almost got arrested.
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