It’s been almost exactly 75 years since the small white-brick building on the corner of Kuna’s Main Street and Avenue D has housed the Kuna State Bank, which closed up shop on Nov. 30, 1934.
But a requirement to repaint the “KUNA STATE BANK” letters on the outside of the building has sparked an interesting debate about whether the city of Kuna is taking historic preservation too far.
It’s one thing to require the building’s owner, Harry Knox, to restore the look of the outside of the building as much as possible to those days when people were driving Model T cars and Herbert Hoover was doing a good job as president. It is another thing to require the building’s signage to advertise a business that fell victim to The Great Depression.
So we put it to the people, with a Kuna Melba News online-only poll last week.
Find out the results in my Editor's Notebook in this week's Kuna Melba News.
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I am pleased with what was done to the face of the building, it looks great. As far as the signage, a retro look would be appropiate. But come on now, Kuna State Bank? They should be able to hang their own shingle. If they (who ever) want to enforce old signage let the whole of downtown Kuna hang or paint all the old signs, not just one business.
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