Woman’s wallet from 1958 is found in movie theatre bathroom – with library cards and gas receipts unearthing trove from a by-gone era
- Floy Culbreth accidentally left her valuables behind at the Plaza Movie Theater in 1958
- The owner of the theater in Atlanta, GA, has reunited the wallet with her daughter
- It still contained her bank cards, family photos and her ID
A woman’s wallet left in a movie theater bathroom in the mid-20th century has been found and reunited with her living relatives more than 60 years later.
Floy Culbreth accidentally left her valuables at the Plaza Movie Theater in Atlanta in 1958 – and it was only discovered during recent renovations.
The red leather-covered relic was wiped off and given to her daughter, Thea Chamberlain.
“It’s meant more than I ever realized,” Chamberlain said Research television of the unexpected find, which still contained her mother’s old bank cards and family photos.
‘Floy Culbreth was actually seen as Floyd Porter. To be honest, losing things wouldn’t have been a surprise to my mother.”
Floy Culbreth (pictured) accidentally left her valuables at the Plaza Movie Theater in Atlanta in 1958 – and it was only discovered during recent renovations
The red leather-covered relic was wiped off and given to her daughter
The Plaza Movie Theater is Atlanta’s oldest continuously operating independent movie theater, having opened as an Art Deco movie theater in 1939
The wallet contained credit cards for Davison and Rich’s department stores, gas coupons (10 gallons for $3.26), and Culbreth’s identification.
Culbreth died more than a decade ago, but her wallet was traced to her living relatives through 21st century Internet sleuthing.
Chris Escobar, owner of the movie theater, said his wife went to work finding the woman’s relatives online, a task that took her just a few hours.
Escobar said the decades-old wallet was discovered by construction workers in the corner of the ladies’ room.
He said it was covered in brick and dust after being left in a small cupboard in the toilet.
“When we started removing the old tile, we discovered that a little bit of the wall was falling out in this corner,” Escobar told Investigate TV.
“And then we see this space behind the wall that no one knew was there. Then we discovered this incredible little historical find.”
“It’s meant more than I ever realized,” Thea Chamberlain (pictured) said of the unexpected find, which still contained her mother’s old bank cards and family photos.
Culbreth died more than a decade ago, but her wallet was traced to her living relatives through 21st century internet sleuthing
The wallet contained credit cards for Davison and Rich’s department stores, gas coupons (10 gallons for $3.26), and Culbreth’s ID (photo)
The Plaza Movie Theater is Atlanta’s oldest continuously operating independent movie theater, having opened as an Art Deco theater in 1939.
It became an
The Georgia Theater retained the original marquee and much of its original furnishings.