If you’ve ever misplaced your wallet and searched everywhere for it, then you know how frustrating it can be to have to accept that it’s gone. Well, what if if was returned to your family, 65 YEARS later? That’s exactly what happened with this Atlanta woman’s wallet–making national news!
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USA Today reports, “In October, employees at the historic theater [The Plaza Theatre] found the wallet in a closet during renovations.”
Plaza owner, Christopher Escobar said, “‘In the far, far corner under the pipe, they ended up coming across this wallet… We pretty quickly realized what we had on our hands.'”
What they had on their hands was a piece of history. The small wallet from the 1950s was a slice of life, perfectly preserved, from a time long-gone. The wallet’s owner, Floy Culbreth, had misplaced it in the theater in 1958, and here it was, still in perfect shape, six and a half decades later.
USA Today reports that, “Among its treasures were a gas receipt showing Culbreth paid $3.26 for 10 gallons, a special photo of her father and raffle tickets to win a 1959 Chevrolet… Escobar said the wallet also had an identification card showing that its owner was Floy Culbreth, and it included an address and contact information, on top of credit cards for department stores, a doctor’s appointment reminder and a calendar.”
How did they locate the owner?
USA Today reports that, “Escobar enlisted his wife Nicole to help to find Culbreth. When she looked Culbreth up, she found an obituary. Culbreth died in 2005 and her husband Roy died four years later.”
They didn’t stop there, though. By searching the relatives in mentioned in her obituary, the Escobars found, “Culbreth’s daughter, Thea Chamberlain, and other family members [who] went to the Plaza on Nov. 19 to pick up her mother’s wallet.”
Chamberlain was overwhelmed with joy to have the disappeared wallet returned to her. The pieces of her mother that they had thought missing were all right there.
An incredible tale, to find something so valuable to you, all these years later. We’re happy Floy Culbreth’s wallet could be returned to her family.