{"id":1740,"date":"2014-04-23T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2016-07-31T21:59:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T04:59:32","slug":"sunnyvales-space-age-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/2014\/04\/sunnyvales-space-age-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunnyvale&#8217;s Space Age Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chowla.com\/img\/web\/2\/bank-of-the-west-8567-w1200.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" alt=\"Bank of the West Building in Sunnyvale, CA\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I drive past this Bank of the West branch everyday on my way to and from work. &nbsp;It&#8217;s mid-century design frequently catches my eye as I drive past. &nbsp; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/sunnyvale\/ci_23771465\/space-age-bank-building-marks-50-years-sunnyvale\">this San Jose Mercury article<\/a>&nbsp;on the 50th anniversary of the building, the postcard introducing this branch of First National Bank of San Jose in 1963 said&nbsp;&#8220;A space-age bank for a space-age community&#8221;. &nbsp;Funny how a design &nbsp;intended to be futuristic &nbsp;in 1963 is nostalgic in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midcenturybanks.recentpast.org\/architecture\/featured-buildings\/item\/19-first-national-bank-of-san-jose-1963\">A bit more history on the building<\/a>&nbsp;at recentpast.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drive past this Bank of the West branch everyday on my way to and from work. &nbsp;It&#8217;s mid-century design frequently catches my eye as I drive past. &nbsp; According to this San Jose Mercury article&nbsp;on the 50th anniversary of the building, the postcard introducing this branch of First National Bank of San Jose in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[105,70],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-california","category-silicon-valley","tag-monochrome","tag-sunnyvale","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}