Bathroom Digest: Teller’s Restaurant

BY OWEN MORRIS

Whoever coined the term “pissing away money” would have felt right at home in the bathroom of Teller’s, the upscale Lawrence restaurant. Long before it was Teller’s, the building was known as the The First National Bank of Lawrence and like most banks of the era, it had a sizable vault.

Nearly forty years ago the bank moved two blocks to Ninth and Massachusetts, leaving the building and vault empty. The building was occupied by various organizations until the Overland Pizza Company turned into the Italian restaurant now known as Teller’s in 1992. The bank vault became the bathroom.