VAULT FORTRESS.

[10ringo10]

Love these articles, see links below.

[MacGyver101]

I'm not sure if you found the scans here... but this is a great site for some of these old articles (and it has the last page of the article as well):

• A Visit Inside Uncle Sam's New Gold Vault Fortress (Jun 1934)

They have a few other good lock-related articles there as well:

• Public Lock Picker Number One (July 1950)
• Locks of Ages (Dec 1953)
• Auto Stealing Now $50M-a-Year Racket (Jan 1933)

[LockManipulator]

I like the public lock picker story. But it took him 2 minutes to open handcuffs?! It took me that long for my first try. Now it only takes about 2 seconds......

[MBI]

Those are some cool old articles, thanks for the links. I laughed at the $50,000,000 figure.

[10ringo10]

So it was BARNEY ZION that PATENTED the pick gun in the 1930s. named the lockaid
But the pick gun was invented by ELY EPSTEIN or brother
Majestic lock company,i know the majestic lockpicks too.

[MacGyver101]

Here's another good article from the past:

• Beating the Burglar at His Own Game (Dec, 1924)

It describes, among other things, the installation of tear gas into vault door as an anti-burglary device (which became popular during the time). Watch out when drilling those old safes!