A wallet that went missing in 1958 turned up in the most unlikely place more than six decades later – behind the bathroom wall of a historic Atlanta movie theater in what used to be a closet.
“It’s a portal to the past,” Plaza Theater owner Chris Escobar told CNN.
With the city’s oldest 84-year-old movie theater, Escobar has found plenty of blasts from the past, like old alcohol bottles and popcorn displays, but the “historical” wallet is a whole new level, he said.
Inside the dust-covered folds were a black-and-white family photo, a raffle ticket to win a 1959 Chevrolet and a shiny new insurance card, CNN reported.
There’s even a credit card for a local Davison and Rich’s convenience store that doesn’t work — and a receipt for 10 gallons of gas for just $3.26, according to Atlanta News First (ANF).
But the biggest find in the wallet was Floy Culbreth’s name on the license, according to CNN.
The wallet was found behind a bathroom wall at the Plaza Theatre. Google Maps Theater owner Chris Escobar said he was determined to return the wallet to the family’s Plaza Theater
“Realizing that this is missing from a family of real people who lived in this neighborhood for 65 years, imagine if we could find them,” Escobar told the network.
Escobar and his “internet researcher” wife Nicole soon found an obituary for Culbreth’s husband, Roy, and social media eventually led them to the couple’s daughter, Thea Chamberlain, 71, who lived less than 20 minutes from the Plaza Theater, she told ANF.
“Honestly, mom losing things wasn’t a surprise,” Culbreth’s shocked daughter told her mother, who died more than 10 years ago.
Inside the wallet was a license for Floy Culbreth, a raffle ticket to win a new 1959 Chevrolet, a credit card without a magnetic stripe, and a family photo in black and white. Plaza Theatre
Chamberlain told CNN Culbreth was a “spicy June Cleaver” and a Sunday school teacher who was deeply involved with helping those with cerebral palsy, which led the family to hold an annual golf tournament.
The discovery of the long-lost artifact was “quite touching,” he added. “A lot of memories come back, and it brings him back.”
Culbreth’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren went to the theater to retrieve her purse.
Watching his own 5- and 7-year-old grandchildren see the items in their great-grandfather’s purse was a “special moment” for Chamberlain.
“They know it’s something to appreciate.”
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