Western Savings and Loan

Western Savings and Loan
Company typePrivate
IndustrySavings and loan association
Founded1929; 95 years ago (1929) in Phoenix, Arizona
DefunctJune 1, 1990; 34 years ago (1990-06-01)
FateInsolvency
SuccessorBank of America Arizona (and later Bank of America)
HeadquartersPhoenix, Arizona,
United States
Area served
Arizona, Utah
Key people
Junius Driggs, CEO
Douglas Driggs
Revenue$6 billion USD

Western Savings and Loan was an American financial institution founded by the Driggs family.

The Driggs family came to Arizona in 1921 after trading everything they owned—a bank, drugstore, hotel, and wheat farm in Driggs, Idaho—for a section of cotton land in Maricopa County. Their timing was unfortunate as cotton prices plummeted just as their crop came in and they were forced to take jobs selling building and loan certificates. In 1929, the Driggs family pooled $5,000 to found the Western Building and Loan Association, which became Western Savings.