Many customers fondly remember locally owned Great Barrington Savings Bank. During the decades following its founding in 1869, the bank moved along Main Street several times. It operated out of the old Berkshire Courier building (now Rubiner’s Cheesemongers) for 35 years before moving into a new building on the corner of Main and Elm Streets in the early 1950s. Longtime residents likely remember past bank presidents including Fred Turner, Peter Adams, R. Gordon Granger, George Adams, and Jim Cunningham.
Great Barrington Savings Bank merged with Berkshire County Savings Bank in the 1990s to become Berkshire Bank. One local “weather watcher” claims that the old temperature sign—pictured above in 1970—was more accurate than the present-day sign shown below.
