There are still a bunch of old bank drive-thru locations right in the middle of the central business district in OKC.

Wasn't there an old Oklahoma law that limited the distance a drive-thru could be from the bank itself? Since there were so many DT banks when these were built (First National, Liberty, City National, many others) they all had to provide facilities right in the middle of downtown.

And was this restriction directly related to the anti branch banking laws or was this different?


Didn't the laws change in the 80's as a way to induce outside banks to pick up the pieces following the Penn Square Bank collapse and the others that followed? I know First Interstate from California came in and bought the assests of a failed First National Bank and ultimately moved them to Leadership Square around 1985.