Thanks to a safecracker from Winnipeg, Canada, Red Emma's Bookstore in Baltimore, Md., has opened a century-old safe the staff found during renovations of its Greenmount Avenue store, WMAR2 reported.
Last month, the store put out a call for help on social media, offering to split the contents of the safe with anyone able to open it.
The store had some rules:
"1. Manipulation only. Drilling or other destructive stuff is not allowed.
2. You can only attempt to open it when the bookstore is open for business.
3. We split the mystery contents 50/50, unless it is gross or cursed, in which case you can have all of it."
Rick Ammazzini, a bus driver from Winnipeg, Canada, with a passion for picking locks and opening safes, answered the call and flew some 1,500 miles to Baltimore. He began working on the safe on Wednesday and had it open by Thursday evening.
It contained a pay stub dating back to the 1920s and a wine label from a California winery.
Ammazzini told WMAR2: "Out of all the safes I've cracked, only one had stuff inside and that was just paperwork."