Sal Schillizzi
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Sal Schillizzi is a retired American businessman who owned and operated All Over Locksmiths in New York City. Schillizzi is best known for his call-in radio show for burglary prevention and various television appearances. These efforts were designed to educate the public in the area of burglary prevention.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}
Career
Schillizzi learned safecracking in the 1950s when working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. While there, he heard of a course on safecracking being taught in Rochester and decided to try it. Schillizzi held the world champion safecracker title for 22 years.{{cite news |title=Safecrackers Use Sleight of Hand |url=https://www.locksmithspros.com/ |last=Brewersal|first=Darlyn|date=January 4, 1990|work=The New York Times|pages=Section C; Page 2, Column 4|accessdate=July 4, 2011}}
In 1982, he opened Thomas Edison's safe, which had been housed in the Edison National Historic Site, unopened, for at least 27 years.{{cite news|title=U.S. CRACKS EDISON SAFE TO NO AVAIL|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|date=March 21, 1982|work=The New York Times|page=39}} In 1976, he opened a safe, made in the mid-19th century, that had been shut since 1903 in a bank in Somers, New York.
Schillizzi also appeared in two films; Waitress! (1982) and Three Days of the Condor (1975).
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0771735}}
- [https://www.tonyslocksmith.com/ Emergency Locksmith]
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Category:20th-century metalsmiths
Category:American businesspeople
Category:American male film actors
Category:American radio personalities
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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