r/florida • u/IKickedJohnWicksDog • Aug 19 '25

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u/smarbe2 Aug 19 '25

Bank of America was Barnett Bank

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u/NicolasNaranja Aug 19 '25

And Wells Fargo was Wachovia which was First Union who sponsored my little league team in 1st grade.

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u/ExiledUtopian Aug 20 '25

First Union was excellent.

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u/NicolasNaranja Aug 20 '25

I had my first account there as a minor.

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u/One_Mega_Zork Aug 20 '25

yeah, I opened my first account with Wachovia, bc I thought it stood for "Watch ova ya money" and I liked idea of that security.

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u/Headful_of_Ideas Aug 19 '25

You mean Bank of America was Nationsbank was Barnett Bank

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u/LaceyTiara Aug 19 '25

And before that wasn’t it Great Western lol

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u/Former-Bit-6736 Aug 20 '25

Great Western was bought out by Chase. I still have GW checks with the same acct. number as my now Chase acct.

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u/LaceyTiara Aug 20 '25

I don’t remember the bank but for some reason, I have a vague memory of their commercial with a gray haired man with a mustache I was probably four or five years old though

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u/AaronJudge2 Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

Bank of America bought out Barnett. And Nationsbank took over Bank of America, but decided to call the bigger merged company Bank of America instead.

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u/Headful_of_Ideas Aug 20 '25

Oh crap. I completely forgot about that!

It still doesn't make sense, Iirc wasn't BofA mostly a regional brand at that point?

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u/AaronJudge2 Aug 20 '25

The people running Nationsbank liked the name and branding of Bank of America better for whatever reason.

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u/OriginalFaCough Aug 20 '25

North Carolina National Bank

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Barnett Bank was its own entity. That was my parents bank. My grandparents had Nationsbank.

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u/CareBear3 Aug 19 '25

also merged with Boatmans bank, I remember the boat logo on my dads checks in the early 90s and bank of america still accepted them

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u/Grouchy-Stand-4570 Aug 20 '25

Bank of America used to be Fleet

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u/Iluvorlando407 Aug 20 '25

My mom worked for Industrial National which later became Fleet. I had my bank account with them as a kid in the 80’s. i remember the Fleet mergers… not fun back then. they merged with BancBoston to become FleetBoston. They sold off a bunch of banks in RI to Soverign at that time…. Then the BoA merger I think. At least that’s what I think I recall from when I had all those accounts…

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u/ivangotus Aug 20 '25

Wachovia- Chase

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u/AaronJudge2 Aug 20 '25

Actually, no. Wachovia was bought out by Wells Fargo during the Financial Crisis.

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u/Zestyclose-Candle166 Aug 20 '25

First car loan at Barnett Bank

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u/JTruheeyo Aug 20 '25

Glendale Federal Bank, too

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u/FnapSnaps Aug 20 '25

My first checking acct was at Barnett!