On May 4, 1953, the Park City Daily News reported that two people stole a safe from the Bowling Green Auto Wreckers Company office. The thieves attempted to carry the 400-pound safe, but only made it 200 feet.

Their plan was then to roll the safe, but another 200 feet was all they could manage. They destroyed the safe with a sledgehammer and a chisel. Inside the safe was $100 in change.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.