Nov 20, 2025
May 22 in 1950, a letter was sent from a bank in Hiroshima, Japan, to the Mosler Safe Company in Hamilton, Ohio. Mosler was the world leader in safes and vaults, having built the vaults for Fort Knox, the original Declaration of Independence, and more. The bank was re-opening five years after the atomic bomb had dropped on Hiroshima. The letter thanked Mosler for the fact that although the entire city was destroyed and the bank building was a pile of rubble, the Mosler vault survived. Everything inside it — cash and many important documents — was completely unaffected. Now that's an endorsement!
Posted by David Cheeseman & Ohio History
