Gibraltar Savings and Loan
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Gibraltar Savings and Loan Association was a bank operating in California, Washington, and Florida. It was organized as a savings and loan.
Its headquarters building at 9111 Wilshire Boulevard
in Beverly Hills, was built in 1951, designed by William Pereira
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U.S. federal regulators seized assets of the bank in 1989. At the time, it was one of the largest insolvencies in U.S. history. It was later acquired by Security Pacific National Bank, the fifth largest bank in the United States.
Its headquarters building at 9111 Wilshire Boulevard
Wilshire Boulevard
Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was named for Henry Gaylord Wilshire , an Ohio native who made and lost fortunes in real estate, farming, and gold mining. Henry Wilshire initiated what was to become Wilshire...
in Beverly Hills, was built in 1951, designed by William Pereira
William Pereira
William Leonard Pereira was an American architect from Chicago, Illinois, of Portuguese ancestry who was noted for his futuristic designs of landmark buildings such as the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco...
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U.S. federal regulators seized assets of the bank in 1989. At the time, it was one of the largest insolvencies in U.S. history. It was later acquired by Security Pacific National Bank, the fifth largest bank in the United States.