IVIV 'Did you ID the body?"

[Mark Kohut]

Direct homage/inspiration here to Chandler's The Long Goodbye at least. Robin, others too?





"mute set of figures ..and an obviously jive-ass story from the bank"...
I have a friend who recently went to his bank to check his safety-deposit box which contained many important papers, some of his mother's jewelry, etc.

When the bank brought him his, there was none of the above but there was $35,000 in cash.......he said it wasn't him, but they ACTED JUST LIKE TRP DESCRIBES...'sure you didn't forget?'....took out the jewelry earlier and sold it?

He gave up, told them to put all the cash into a new savings account that he started.   He waited

and it didn't take long for the real owner of that safety deposit box to have shown up and wanted his money......they apologized profusely. 

Bank of America 
However, federal banking regulators prohibited Bank of America's interstate banking activity, and Bank of America's domestic banks outside California were forced into a separate company that eventually became First Interstate Bancorp, which was acquired by Wells Fargo and Company in 1996. It was not until the 1980s with a change in federal banking legislation and regulation that Bank of America was again able to expand its domestic consumer banking activity outside California.

Big in California then and a naturally symbolic name...