Locked UP

A small newspaper in Walpole hired me to shoot a few features in town.  I park my car, walk past the small little office where the newspaper functions, and began pondering what to shoot.  I then come across a cluttered store front with a man working on something in the door way.

On the edge of an old safe is a lock deemed un-fixable by another lock smith, but this guys pretty sure he can get it working again.

Albert Doherty, owner of Walpole-Sharon Lock Service,  is on his 39th year in business which is kind of nuts because Albert doesn't look a day over 40, but he's actually been a lock smith since 12 years old.  He bought this business when he was only 17.

The shop is filled with Red Sox memorabilia, old locks for skeleton keys, new inventory, old inventory, Tonka trucks, etc etc.  A nostalgic place to be. The business is even run on turn-dial land line phones and old cash registers with hand written notes in locations that make sense to only those who work there.

Albert doesn't run the business full-time.  He and his brother are both corrections officers at Cedar Junction.  Albert works at the prison from 7 am- 3 pm.  While at the prison, his brother mans the shop before the start of his prison shift which starts at 3 pm and ends at 11 pm.

This is a diamond in the rough if you ask me.  Here you have a brother duo with a passion despite looking for other means of income.  I don't know what else I'm trying to get across with this..  Maybe just that I think Albert and his brother are kind of the shit..