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Pier 39 Safe Open - Contents Will Have To Wait

Tryan Hartill May 23, 2008
Floyd Holcum

Earlier this week Lock Doc proprietor Tom Gorham from Longview WA. has managed to open the mystery safe at Pier 39, but owner Floyd Holcum is waiting to inform his Board of directors before he reveals the contents to the public.

From TDN:

In 2 1/2 hours this week, Lock Doc proprietor Tom Gorham got the safe open by spinning the dial and feeling for grooves to get the combination, a technique called manipulation. The 1-ton safe was forgotten for decades until it was discovered at Hanthorn Cannery on the waterfront in Astoria, Ore., and owner Floyd Holcomb wanted it opened without being damaged. “You’ve got to have a lot of patience, and concentration doesn’t hurt,” Gorham said.

He said the safe defied the efforts of an expert from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gorham’s wife, Kelly, also a locksmith, said another professional safe cracker gave up after 14 hours of trying.

Holcomb found the safe during renovation work for a shopping area along Pier 39 in Astoria. He said he inquired of several longtime Astorians and could not recall seeing it open. No one will say yet what was inside. Holcomb wanted to tell the cannery’s board of directors before letting the public know, Kelly Gorham said.

2 Comments

On May 26, 5:29 AM, Reported wrote:

Portland TV station had this story on Friday evening and reported the safe was
full of salmon cans and nothing else.

On May 26, 2:49 PM, Chris Shepherd wrote:

I might suggest TV and radio coverage at the pier.  This owuld be great media coverage for your business enterprises (current and future).

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