Back in the 1930's and the banks closed -- the safe deposit boxes'contents were lost to the owners of said contents -- employees just stole the contents -- our box full of gold coins was stolen by crooked bank employees -- when the bank re-opened the box was EMPTY -- LAND --
Even safety deposit boxes aren't safe. the state of california, for example, has stolen peoples stuff out of their safety deposit boxes IF those items have been sitting in a box untouched for a couple of years. They even cashed out an elderly couples Berkshire stock for several million.