| 1s | This house is in Spring City, Pennsylvania |
| 4s | A small town a little west of Philadelphia |
| 7s | This house used to be a bank building that was built in 1872, which is now my home |
| 14s | When I decided to purchase it, I knew the building well |
| 18s | because my very first job started out as a teller in 1972 in this bank |
| 26s | At the time I purchased it in 1989 it was actually a working bank |
| 30s | They had just closed it, almost like they had just closed it for the weekend |
| 33s | The teller booths were still here |
| 36s | The paperwork was still here |
| 38s | The vault existed, all the safety deposit boxes were still here |
| 42s | So I started to go through things and remodel |
| 44s | I had keys for a lot of the safety deposit boxes |
| 47s | and as I started to open them I started to find bills, coins, |
| 52s | bills that were actually printed in the basement of this bank |
| 57s | Old savings, passbook information, ledgers, not worth antyhing unfortunately now |
| 64s | but I like to keep it just as memorabilia |
| 66s | I tired to preserve as much of the bank as possible when converting it into a house |
| 72s | but I knew I had to make it livable |
| 74s | I designed the layout, but mostly the bank designed itself |
| 79s | because I have a big vault that you know you can't remove the vault |
| 83s | I want to show off that there's a vault |
| 85s | I thought that was the coolest part of the whole house - is that I had a vault |
| 90s | And I knew right away it had to be a bar |
| 92s | and it already had the lock on top of the vault |
| 94s | so I knew the boardroom was gonna be my bedroom |
| 97s | and I just did one room at a time |
| 99s | I knew we needed a curve because it was so stark and square |
| 103s | so my first idea, it was to do a half circle |
| 106s | to put the dining room in a curve |
| 109s | but I still wanted to have the grandness of when you walk into a bank and you look up |
| 114s | and you get to see those ceilings |
| 116s | I still call this area my lobby even though it's all for the dining room |
| 120s | because this originally was the lobby |
| 122s | and the whole ceiling's original: the original skylight which still opens to let ventilation in |
| 128s | Every chandelier you see in here and the clock out front is original to this building |
| 133s | Now the basement of this place has the original vault from 1872 |
| 139s | There is no ventilation in this vault whatsoever |
| 141s | so the only thing I could think of to do with that was to put a sauna in there |
| 146s | In 1921 one of the largest bank robberies still to date on the east coast happened right here in this house |
| 152s | When it was the bank, seven robbers came in |
| 155s | there were seven board members, there were two employees, and there were two customers |
| 160s | and they held everyone hostage and locked them in the original vault in the basement |
| 165s | and one of the directors who had asthma actually suffocated, went into an asthma attack |
| 173s | People have seen shadow in here, they tell me all the time |
| 176s | Whoever it is seems to be friendly because they never bother me |
| 182s | I love living in this hosue because it's part of my history |
| 186s | part of the town's history, and I do think it's cool |
| 189s | I feel like a queen in this bank |
| 192s | It just makes me feel good and I'm very secure, I love it |
