Although Jack Raymond’s desk sits just outside a vault containing hundreds of safe deposit boxes, he insists he has no idea what clients of the Los Altos Vault & Safe Deposit Co. put inside their rented locked boxes.

“I don’t know what’s in there. I don’t need to know,” said Raymond, an account executive at the brick building on First Street. “What I don’t know I can’t divulge to anyone.”

Still, he does know that among what’s stored inside are some artifacts, art and various pieces of family estates.

Privacy is paramount at the downtown establishment that charges anywhere from $398 to $6,998 a year for use of the boxes, the smallest of which could be used to store jewelry and the largest of which - measuring 6 feet tall and 2 feet deep - could easily hold a large rug. Read Full Story