Corestates is now part of Wells Fargo. Fleet bank and MBNA were absorbed by BofA and Bank One and Priovidian were rolled into Chase through various mergers and acquisitions. The rest? No clue, but yeah those names brought back some memories. I recently found an old newspaper magazine with an advertisement for first USA, they used send mailers like crazy and advertise in parade magazine back in the old days, when you had to mail in an application. Could you imagine having to wait a week plus for an answer? 
@Anonymous wrote:I hate when banks get acquired by other banks. I lost 2 CDs this way. CDs purchased in the mid 80's when I was a young kid by family members for me. Both were acquired by other banks and lost at some point in the 90's. It took me about a decade to track one down, which I got about 10 years ago; it was only about $2500 but hey, money is money. The other CD today should be worth about $3200, possibly more depending on if it continued to roll over more than the 2 times that I know it rolled over. I've been unable to find it and have been looking for a very long time.
I know CDs aren't at all today what they were in the 80's so perhaps the chances of running into this problem in today's environment is far less, but it still bothers me.
I've been able to find old childhood accounts through my states controllers office of unclaimed funds. I suppose every state is different but in my case some old cds were turned over after five years where they sat with the state for another ten before I did a random check one day. if only the state were as enthusiastic as giving back money as they were collecting it 
