Dig that crazy logo. Funky new plow technique or 15th Century confession persuader?

No, just a bank signalling they're willing to go in most any direction to earn, infest and protect your money.

Also, stop by and meet the staff. And they'd like to demonstrate this newfangled ANYTIME TELLER. There's going to be banking 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so you'll never be cash poor at a bar again.

There's a new wind blowing on the Plains. And that wind says easy access to your money, from any direction.

The modern application of this technology was less than a decade old, but they were here and ready for demonstrations, and then frustrated college students dancing on the edge of sobriety, trying to remember something called a "PIN number."

How times have changed.

Auburn National Bank traces its history back to 1907, when the famous Sheldon L. Toomer -- a name familiar to Auburn history buffs as a member of the first football team, prominent graduate and founder of Toomer's Drugs -- brought the first bank into the town.

The Bank of Auburn, as it was called originally, became the Auburn National Bank in 1964.

The name changed again to AuburnBank in 1995 after the great spacebar scare of the early 1990s. Businesses just didn't know if they could trust the big rectangular key to cling onto the bottom of keyboards in the personal computer age, and AuburnBank thought they might be able to corner the brand.

From such beginnings the bank now brags of nine locations and a handful of those ANYTIME TELLER contraptions. But the days of demonstrations on those devices have faded into the haze of history.

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