First National Bank

This was the First National Bank when I was a kid. Before that, it was the Pendergast-Smith Bank, I think. (The name's still on the building, but you can't see it in this picture.) Now it's Womack Insurance.

Remember the days of "counter checks"? In Mexia, there were two kinds of checks on the counter of every store. Pink checks (for First National) and white checks (for Farmer's State). If you wanted to pay by check, you didn't have to carry your own checkbook. You just filled in a counter check and signed it. Balancing a bank account must have been easier in those days.