Spencer Grundler’s reason for wanting a safe is, unfortunately, practical.
The freelance film and TV worker’s apartment in the Copycat Building was broken into while he was away camping. A safe, he thought, would be a great way to store some of his camera equipment, and he didn’t have to go far to find one.
“It’s been in the hallway there for as long as I can remember,” he said. “People have just ignored it.”
Sitting out there was the 4-foot-tall black safe, covered in dead batteries and trash. On the dial is the name Sargent and Greenleaf, a company that still exists today, and patent dates going all the way back to 1860. There’s also an oval-shaped sticker for a company with a Greenmount Avenue address, City-Wide Safe and Lock Co.
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