All the failing banks in the news lately remind so many around here of Washington Mutual (WaMu), and that seemed like a good reason to revisit one of the Northwest’s most memorable – indelible, even – ad campaigns of all time.
WaMu, a long-beloved local company around here, failed on Sep. 25, 2008. In spite of those recent bank problems in California and elsewhere, WaMu still qualifies as the largest such collapse of a financial institution in American history.
Yes, rest assured that your giant foam hand is still valid: We’re still Number One!
Long before the subprime mortgage crisis of 15 years ago, Washington Mutual was founded in
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