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Question about safe deposit box

posted 9 years ago by AH_Fan
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Safe deposit boxes today have 2 locks. 1 lock is opened by a master key that is in the bank's possession. The other lock is opened by a key that the bank gives to the customer to hold onto. The box can't be opened without both keys present so the bank can't open a box without the customer's key unless they drill into the box.

In The Little Foxes, it seemed that the box only required 1 key, which was in the bank's possession. So anyone working at the bank with access to the bank's key could open a customer's box without the customer being present.

Was that really how bank safe deposit boxes worked in 1941?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOwfRyd9avY

[–] DryToast 9 years ago

Was that really how bank safe deposit boxes worked in 1941?

I don't know, but The Little Foxes takes place in 1900.

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[–] diamonddolls 9 years ago

Watching it now on TCM. Leo says that Horace doesn't keep the key - he lets the bank manager go into the box and cut the coupons, so both keys were at the bank.