“The security offered inside a bank safe even became fodder for a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone, in which mild-mannered, bookish bank clerk Henry Bemis, who locked himself inside the bank’s safe each day to read during his lunch break, emerged from the vault one day to find the world devastated by nuclear bombs. IV.”

“The security offered inside a bank safe even became fodder for a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone, in which mild-mannered, bookish bank clerk Henry Bemis, who locked himself inside the bank’s safe each day to read during his lunch break, emerged from the vault one day to find the world devastated by nuclear bombs. IV.”

— Garrett M. Graff