Main Office
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Orlando, Florida
Our new main office building located at the corner of Magnolia and Church will offer the ultimate in Savings and Loan Facilities.
First Federal Branch Offices are located in Dixie Village, College Park and Apopka.
This is where we have our house mtg. and savings.
Undated, and most likely sent with other postcards in a long ago lost envelope, this postcard shows a fairly intact street corner of downtown Orlando. In fact, I drive by this building every time I come downtown on my street parking search from Dixie Village (which is what SoDo used to be called.) The buildings tenants have changed, but this edifice and attached parking garage, built sometime in the mid 1960's, are still vibrant centers of commerce. First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Orlando, known as "The First," was a casualty of the Savings and Loan scandals that brought many thefts, like the 57 year old institution, to their knees.
Through sheer coincidence, I know where the College Park branch was located. I have a small collection of artifacts from Orlando's past, and I just happened to pick up a small glass tray emblazoned with a sketch of the old building, which still stands today. In fact, if you have a Chase (or most recently a Washington Mutual) account, you may have been to this place at 2424 Edgewater Drive:
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