True Grit: Everything But Gold

NBC News (LA) ^ | 12/16/2010 | patricia gomez-peralta

[gracie1]

Like many people, I too was not enthused to hear of remaking True Grit. But when I heard the Coens were going to be doing it, that peaked my interest. I’ve loved all of their movies, No Country being about the best I’ve seen in years. There are only a handful of films I will willingly of my own accord make the trek to the multiplex to see. Lord of the Rings was one. This will be another.

[Deaf Smith]

Don’t mean to be technical, but...”Bank of America Corporation was formed in the 1998 merger of NationsBank Corporation and BankAmerica Corporation.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/bank-of-america-corporation

[irishtenor]

The 3rd in the Narnia series.

[mylife]

Ahh..

Ok. I never read those.

[mylife]

That was the last one I really had to see in the theater!

LOTR trilogy.

[irishtenor]

Oh, you should. Very well written. Or, watch the first two, then go and see the third. Well worth watching. Very well done.

[mylife]

Didnt Lewis Carol write those?

[Inyo-Mono]

Jim from C-Town:
The fact that he was given a credit or debit card that had a daily transaction limit was absolutely reasonable for a movie set in the seventies. It is even more reasonable considering that the movie is set in 1980. By 1980 ATM machines where at almost every bank.

Deaf Smith:
Maybe in New Yawk during that period.

Even up to 1985, good luck finding a bank premise ATM in west or east Texas. Or even any rural Texas town.

Yeah, here in rural North Calif, we didn't have ATMS until the early 1990s.

[irishtenor]

No, C.S Lewis.

[mylife]

That is what I meant. Doh!

[Deaf Smith]

gracie1's BofA in 1981 was a good whopper too.

Oh, Whataburger for lunch tomorrow.

[txhurl]

FRmail, Sir.

[Mr. Blonde]

Woody Harrelson’s character was a visitor to the area no? If he were even from a bigger town in Texas, Houston or Dallas say, it would not be strange for him to have something we all agree existed right?

[Inyo-Mono]

Not every part of the country gets the latest technologly at the same time. No internet of any kind here until 1997, no cable TV until 1987, and no Versatel, ATM or whatever you want to call it until the early ‘90s.

[Deaf Smith]

Don't know about Houston in 1980. Always drove through.

Ask your daddy if he had a ATM card in 1980 Oklahoma or even knew what one was.
And don't tell me it was from Bank of America (did not exist).

[gracie1]

My card says customer since 1980. BankAmericard was piloted in Fresno. My grandfather used the scaffolding timbers from the Bank of Italy (forerunner of Bank of America) for foundation supports for the house he built. Just random thoughts, pay no mind.

[Deaf Smith]

Your post in #38 stated "BofA". Is that Bank of America?

Yes, I have a account at BofA and they scratch their heads when I tell them I have been customer for over 40 years...Same building, just many mergers from the original State Bank.

Not to be technical. s/

[gracie1]

Well your right about all of the mergers. Many smaller banks have been eaten up by bigger ones over the years, it is indeed hard to trace them all. My father banked at Security Pacific Bank. They are no more, who knows who bought it out. The only other major bank still around from then is Wells Fargo.

[Inyo-Mono]

Ask your daddy if he had a ATM card in 1980 Oklahoma or even knew what one was.

And don't tell me it was from Bank of America (did not exist).

Funny how a thread about the movie True Grit turned into an ATM/bank thread, but are you claiming that Bank of America did not exist in 1980?

[Deaf Smith]

The point IS since you were so mistaken about BofA for the 80’s how can you be so positive that the guy giving Woody a ATM card in 1980 Del Rio, TEXAS is correct?