
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 3, 1990                   TAG: 9005030437
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By Associated Press
DATELINE: SANTA MARIA, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

BANK-WINDOW CREATOR EDWARD BLAINE JR. DIES

Edward L. Blaine Jr., credited with creating the drive-up banking window in the late 1930s, died Monday after a long illness at age 89.

Blaine went to work for Seattle's National City Bank in 1924 and became vice president of Seattle's People's Bank in 1935. About two years later he decided to cut a window at the First Avenue branch for drive-up customers.

by CNB