It’s an old bank vault — one of the last remaining relics of a town called Osceola that once thrived with hundreds of residents and then suddenly disappeared nearly a century ago. The town’s ...

The old Bank of Pompano, shown here in this 1920s file photo, is the site of The Vault Bar & Restaurant, a new speakeasy-style gastropub and cocktail lounge that opened on Feb. 27.

The Dominion Bank was eventually built around the Vault one year later in 1914. The architectural firm Darling and Pearson designed the building "in the Beaux-Arts style." ...

But what good is a bank vault with steel, 18-inch thick walls to an Italian restaurant? “We did some homework (and) found out, well, (we should) turn it into a walk-in cooler,” Raymond said.

The restaurant is in the lobby bar and lower-level vault of the 103-year-old W.T. Waggoner Building, a 20-story skyscraper that was home to the old Continental National Bank until 1957.