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January 22, 2007

Only in Milwaukee: Polski ATM

Tonight I deposited a check in a local Milwaukee ATM, and saw something unusual:

Polski as an ATM option? I love it! :-)

Only in Milwaukee (and Poland)!

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Comments

Wow, green phosphor... that ATM looks so 1980 with the CGA displays and all. In the area where I live most common languages for ATMs are english and german. Its great to read "Espanol" without the beloved ñ letter. :)

Posted by: Carlos at January 23, 2007 3:15 PM

NICE! Wilkamy de Milwakee!

Posted by: Kyle Korleski at January 24, 2007 12:22 AM

Here in Manchester there are Polish advertising posters everywhere, mostly banking ones. It's unusual to see, but nice to see that banks are making aneffort to market to specific communities properly.

Posted by: Trump at January 24, 2007 1:11 PM

Carlos: yeah, several ATMs here are still very 80s!

Kyle, I bet you coudl actually navigate the UI in Polski! :-)

Trump, I agree I would guess there must be many Polish immigrants in that area who asked for the added language. I thought it was unusual and cool to see Polski on the menu.

FYI, Milwaukee has a long Polish immigrant heritage, but that was a long while ago — dunno if anyone still speaks Polish from that earlier wave, so my guess is there must be new immigrants here in the city, or else very old Polish bank customers. :-)

Posted by: Mike Rohde at January 24, 2007 3:34 PM

Hey Mike! It's Mary! :)

First of all, that ATM is hilarious!

Secondly, we've been sort of computerless for a VERY long time! It's good to see you are still here! Drop a line!

Posted by: Mary at January 24, 2007 8:37 PM

Thanks for the note Mary, and glad to hear you're back! :-)

Posted by: Mike Rohde at January 24, 2007 10:40 PM

That is teh awesum! Was it near Art's Altenburg's Concertina Bar? :)

Posted by: Pete Prodoehl at January 25, 2007 2:38 PM

Heh — I wouldn't be surprised if they had Polski as an option there Pete! :-)

It was technically in West Allis, on National near HWY 100 — Mid Amerca Bank (formerly St. Francis Bank).

Posted by: Mike Rohde at January 25, 2007 3:17 PM

The surprising part to me, seeing your ATM screen, was that I thought the order was wrong--the Polish should have been on top! That's how they are here--oh, and no Spanish! If we have a third language on an ATM (Bankomat) here, it's German, not Spanish. ;-)

Nice seeing that photo!

BTW, the previous name of the bank should give you a clue to the reason for the Polish. ;-)

-Jon
Krakow, Polska ;-)

Posted by: Jon Glass at January 27, 2007 12:32 PM