Central Key & Safe Co

Central Key & Safe Co is a locksmith in Wichita, Kansas. The company provides master key systems, door control systems, door operators and door hardware, card access control systems, lock installation, repair and replacement, key cutting and duplication, automotive key services including car key programming and ignition repair, electronic and smart locks, and safe and vault services covering rental, purchase, moving, maintenance and repair. Its work serves residential, commercial, automotive and institutional customers. The business holds a rating of 4.70.

Central Key & Safe Co has been part of Wichita since 1903, when the shop began operating at the northwest corner of Second and Market Streets. Lauren H. Webb returned to Wichita after serving in France with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I and bought the business in 1922. He ran it at that location until his death in 1946, when ownership passed to his four daughters: Norma Keller, Dorothy Sydnor, Ruby Trice and Margaret Phelps. The current shop at 305 North Market was built by the new owners in 1953, and the company was incorporated in 1967 while remaining family owned. In its early decades the shop also sold sporting goods, repaired fishing tackle, restrung tennis racquets, fitted new tires to tricycles and handled umbrella repair.

The shop sits on North Market Street in downtown Wichita, about a tenth of a mile from North Broadway Street and the United States Marshal's Service office, and roughly two tenths of a mile from the Wichita U.S. Federal Court, the Orpheum Theatre and the Downtown YMCA.

More than a century of continuous family ownership and a 4.70 rating reflect a locksmith practice that Wichita residents have relied on across generations.