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On May 18, 1961—On this day in history, Chase Manhattan Bank officially opened its 60-story, state-of-the-art tower in the Wall Street area. The building itself housed the world’s largest bank vault and the largest banking operation ever assembled under one roof—38 floors of Chase Manhattan offices. It was also this day that Pinkerton armed guards and New York Security Department guards, all dressed in plain clothes, wheeled more than $32 billion of stocks and bonds through the crowded streets of the financial district without anyone knowing what was really in those wooden crates.
