→Subscribe for new videos every day→’s 1932 movie, American Madness, after. At the age of 14, Giannini left school and began working with his step father, Lorenzo Scatena, in the produce industry as a produce broker. By the time he was 31, he was able to sell much of his interest in this company to his employees and had planned to retire. However, one year later, he was asked to join the Columbus Savings & Loan Society, which was a small bank in North Beach, California. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/06/the-real-life-george-bailey-who-founded-bank-of-italy-which-became-bank-of-america/ Resources/Further Reading: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1438954921/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1438954921 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989772,00.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Giannini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Capra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Madness http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_One_Night http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/index.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake Image Credit (Thank you) http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/A.P.-Giannini.jpg http://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/archives/people/images/peoplesavings.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Seattle_-_Scandinavian_American_Bank_interior_-_1900.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Swiss_Bank_Corporation_London_office_(1900).png http://www.italoamericano.org/sites/default/files/styles/crop_show/public/media/main/bank.png?itok=yms2PV0O http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/earthquake.jpg http://foundsf.org/images/3/33/Italian1$bank-of-italy.jpg http://www.grifasi-sicilia.com/messina_dopo_il_ter