Another what, you ask? Well. If you google Midland Bank nowadays the Hotel Minneapolis pops up. The hostel is housed in the Midland's former building, which was originally the Security Bank, which is . . . nice to know, I guess; impresses visitors. Yes, that structure was once called something else. Some folks 'round these parts still remember the old Security Bank. They had these tan-colored passbooks with a nubby finish. "Course, most banks at the time had black, but Security, they went for the tan -

SHUT UP! TELL IT TO THIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY!

In any case, I don't care about the Security Bank, the Midland Bank, or anything else to do with the structure. It is a pedestrian building of little interest, except for the restored interior. Here's some pictures from Norwest's archives of the lobby, premodernization; take a look at this Full-Service Robot Teller of the Future shot from the early 70s. But all this is irrelevant to the revelation I had the other day when looking at some old matchbooks, and yes, I know that the words "revelation" and "matchbooks" are rarely found in the same sentence, for good reason.

Anyway. From the Hennepin County Library, which has a plenitude of sundered links these days:

That's not the old Midland bank building. It's the LaSalle building, demolished for the IDS. Emporis says: "The La Salle Building received a new Art Moderne facade, designed by Larson & McLaren, in 1948 to replace the original facade of terra-cotta."

The matchbook:

It had a weather ball. There was another Weatherball.