You can bank on it
@GardenGerty (157546)
United States
August 2, 2022 6:56am CST
Our town's library is in what used to be a bank. It has a used book shop in back, a meeting room, the room with the stacks and the pictured room . . .the vault.
In the vault are many historic treasures of our town. Also there is a pull down staircase, seen in this picture. There is a note requesting you stay off those steps and prohibiting climbing. In fact it is not usually pulled down but was for the celebration.
If you were to go up those steps, you would find a "watch room". It does not have watches but was a place for the bank security guard to watch for bad characters coming to the bank.
There is a port or small window which allowed a gun to be trained on such "guests".
Did anyone ever get shot? I have not heard.
You can bank on the idea that reading is worth a fortune.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
2 Aug 22
Very nice play on words! 
I hope you and your hubby are both doing well today. 
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
We are doing well. Counting down on treatments for him.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
3 Aug 22
@GardenGerty Good! I'm happy to know that!
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
@DaddyEvil thanks. He just got told that he will have four extra days due to the infectious disease doctor not being able to see him to give the okay to stop.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
There are also watermarks on one of the walls of how high the flood waters got in 1951.
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@LindaOHio (155843)
• United States
3 Aug 22
Very interesting and clever! How is your husband doing?
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
He is doing fine, we think. He is going to have to continue the IV antibiotics due to a schedule issue with the infectious disease doctor. He will continue until the 9th. It kind of leaves us tied to our local environment because he has daily treatments.
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@LindaOHio (155843)
• United States
3 Aug 22
@GardenGerty Please keep us posted!
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@nitirrbb7 (4317)
• India
3 Aug 22
That must be a really long time when the bank must have existed there as per the picture.
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@JordanLader (4592)
• Sparta, Tennessee
2 Aug 22
That is really cool. It would definitely be a neat place to visit
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
The library board is doing a good job. Not many towns of 450 people have such a nice library. It is not huge, but it is ours.
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@JordanLader (4592)
• Sparta, Tennessee
3 Aug 22
@GardenGerty I'm pretty sure that we have more people and ours isn't that nice. It's how I ended up with as many books as I own lol
@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
2 Aug 22
Yes. I agree with that. While reading this, I'm missing my old profession. I used to be a Librarian.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
What do you do now? At one time I wanted to be a librarian and helped in the school libraries.
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
3 Aug 22
@GardenGerty Yes. I only stopped of being a librarian because of my previous employer.
@BarBaraPrz (45472)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
2 Aug 22
I wonder how many banks had this feature, and how many people knew of it.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
That is a really good question. You never see anything quite like it in the old western movies.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
We are lucky it is part of our town.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
2 Aug 22
The librarian should position herself once in a while in the watch room
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
We could always send a board member up there.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
I could not tell you exactly how old. It is probably posted somewhere, though.The town celebrated 150 years in June.
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@RebeccasFarm (86731)
• United States
2 Aug 22
Now isnt that a cool old Kansas used to be? Thanks Heather this is neato.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
I thought it would be a nice change of pace.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
I think we were taken up the steps once when we were visiting. Our realtor that sold us our house is on the library board. We actually just visited the town originally to see the library.
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@Marilynda1225 (79645)
• United States
2 Aug 22
That's such an interesting history about your library being a bank. Awesome picture too
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
3 Aug 22
It is one of the many historic places in our little town.
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