I know it’s a private lot. But as a Bank of America customer, I think it’s crazy — and a waste of money — to hire an attendant who shoos away non-banking drivers.
This was the scene at noon today:
As for the BOA “security guard”: Whenever I see him deployed outside one branch, I just rob another.
A 2-hour hunt — involving Westport police, state troopers and dogs — ended in the arrest of a man and woman following an attempted larceny at the Citibank across from Sherwood Diner today.
The suspects attempted to withdraw money from an account that had insufficient funds.
Perhaps Citibank needs to hire the same sunglass-wearing security dudes posted in front of Bank of America.
Or not. The rent-a-cops are there only part time.
You don’t have to be Jesse James to see them at one branch, and move on to the next.
More than 2 years after going dark, Bank of America’s time-and-temperature sign has returned.
Once again, drivers have something else to distract them while roaring through downtown.
We can assure ourselves that, yes, it really is as hot (or freezing) as we think it is.
The sign might even pick up where the old one left off, and be 75% accurate 50% of the time.
And who knows? This proof that we really can go back in time (ho ho) gives hope for the resurrection of other long-lost Westport icons.
What’s next? Big Top?
Ice Cream Parlor?
The Crest?
Where is Bank of America’s sign when we really need it?
Bank of America tells its Westport customers — in Spanish — how it will celebrate America’s independence from the British.
We’re not living in 1776 any more.
Gracias a Dios.
According to 1st selectman Gordon Joseloff, recent budget cuts mean our town will have to do less with more.
Damn! Removing this 1990 Weicker for Governor sign from the base of the flagpole in front of Bank of America had just risen to the top of the Public Works Department’s to-do list.
Now we’ll have to wait another 20 years.
(Photo by Edward Bloch)
…when we’ve got alert “06880” readers?
The downtown time-and-temperature sign may be kaput, but one Westporter knew how hot it was today just by checking her car’s dashboard.
So yes, it hit 100 degrees today in town.
Either that, or we’ve finally found a temperature gauge even more inaccurate than Bank of America’s.
It would be nice to blame this on the recent storm — but the Bank of America’s traditionally inaccurate sign went dark several days before the first power line fell.
Now how will we know what the wrong temperature is?
A new sign hangs on the Bank of America downtown branch door: “Come back soon.”
It’s the kind of thing you’d see at a diner, or maybe a florist.
Granted, Bank of America has had some itty-bitty problems, with its serial acquisition of other troubled banks, billions of dollars in non-performing loans, and now-defenestrated CEO Kenneth Lewis.
I’m no Tim Geithner, but it seems the way back to profitability does not lie in printing faux-folksy signs. I want my bank solid and secure, not all homey and aw-shucksy. I don’t need the teller cages of yore, but don’t pander to me. I go to the bank when I have to. Stop pretending it’s a place I drop in on a whim, to chat up the tellers and snag a free lollipop.
If only there were another bank in Westport to try…
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