Washington Mutual

	This entry refers to a departed business — a business that has closed or left town. All information here is for historical reference only.

Location

330 E Street

Hours

Monday-Friday 9:00am - 6:00pm

Saturday 9:00am - 4:00pm

Sunday Closed

Phone

(530)756-8350

Website

bank website

Credit Card website

Washington Mutual (also known as WaMu) was a savings and loan association that provided banking services. After the bank went insolvent in 2008, its assets were purchased by JPMorgan Chase, and in March 2009 all California WaMu branches and ATMs became Chase branches and ATMs, including the ones in Davis.

It had an ATM and a talking ATM at this location along with the one in the MU Games Area. They remodeled in 2007 to update their look, moving the front door from south-facing to west-facing and added a safe, indoor ATM area accessible all hours via debit card authentication. Once upon a time, WaMu had a policy of not charging for access to accounts at other banks through their ATMs.

The people there were generally very friendly, if this isn't the case at all commercial banks.

As of March 8, 2009 all WaMu credit cards have been converted to Chase cards and now online credit card access is provided through http://www.chase.com instead of http://www.wamucards.com.

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2008-02-05 10:30:25   Perhaps we should add a link on all the bank pages to a discussion/explanation of local banking versus global commercial banking and the benefits of each? —ChrisThielen

2008-03-02 08:57:35   The free ATM withdrawals are for customers only. They also don't charge if you need to use another banks ATM. Thats what those advertisement are about. Generally this bank is great. As with all banks the Overdraft fees are huge but if you keep track of your account you wont need to worry about it. Definitely the best bank choice for students. —redbear

2009-02-05 16:23:50   They don't charge you for using other bank's atm machine. The other bank is the one that charged you $2. —fsttrp

2009-07-24 15:55:47   After Chase bought Wamu, a smile sort of became more expensive in this Wamu/Chase branch as well. Many of them were celebrity look-alike when they smiled (if you notice carefully, there is one Jason-Mraz look-alike....seriously..lol.). I wished they would give away more smiles now. Anyhow, the services are still high-class, except for one thing-they didn't let me use colorful pens....JK. —superdavis