[Flick Lives]

Accidental time capsule

[gundog]

Packed off by rats?

[marktwain]

Probably stolen, money taken, wallet tossed.

My best guess.

[OttawaFreeper]

In somewhat related story, back in about 1993, I worked a summer job with a building contractor who did a fair bit of work at the local schools maintaining and fixing the gym equipment.

In any event, he had in his office an old six pack case of Canada Dry ginger ale bottles that had that distinctive look of what the case and the pop bottles looked like no later than 1970 or thereabouts. He told me that one day about one or a couple of years prior, he had been working at a school when he had to go into an old storage room and off in a corner was this pack of empty pop bottles.

He figured that all of those years ago, someone probably put the bottles there with the idea of going to the grocery store to return them for the deposit money but then forgot about them and they stayed there until they were discovered by he himself.

[HalfIrish]

I would have completely lost interest in reuniting the wallet with its owner as sound as I found the Grateful Dead ticket stub. Deadheads are not my cup of tea.

[Responsibility2nd]

A Deadhead in California. What are the odds? What are the odds?

[webheart]

The photo and concert ticket weren’t clues. They just looked at the driver’s license. Writers of news always want to show off. “Let’s see. Who was in this photo. Maybe we can figure out where it was taken. Or we can get a list of all the people who went to a Grateful Dead concert. Then we call everyone on the list but only the females. That will take half as long. This expired driver’s license doesn’t look too promising because it’s expired.”

[rlmorel]

I love stories like these. I also have an interesting story about the USS Rooks (DD-804) that my dad was on in Korea.

He reported to her as a LTJG in June 1951 at San Diego, CA, they went via the Panama Canal to Newport, RI, where they operated up and down the East coast until April 1952, when they went BACK down to the Panama Canal and on to Korea where he spent four or five months operating in and around Korea. They went into the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, and back to Newport, RI in April 1953.

During that deployment, he had proposed to my mom in a letter, and the wedding date was set for May 9th, 1953. When my dad's ship came in just a couple of weeks before the wedding, and he was able to finally get off and head up to Massachusetts for the wedding that was to take place in the next few days, he realized he had forgotten his dress shoes and the marriage license in his rack after he arrived home.

He drove all the way back to the ship in Newport got his shoes and license, but when he got back up the Massachusetts, he couldn't find the wedding license. He went back down again and went aboard the ship where he scoured the compartment and his rack, to no avail. Crestfallen, he had to go back without the license, but the office was closed for the weekend and he was unable to get another one. Someone he knew pulled a few strings, got the guy to come back in and he got a license, so the wedding went ahead as planned.

In the early Eighties, my mother got a call from South Korea (that was her account, no idea how the vessel ended up there) and the guy said they were breaking up an old WWII navy ship for scrap, and they had found a wedding license with her and my dad's name on it. They were breaking up the USS Rooks, and when they were tearing the compartment apart, they found it in a bulkhead.

Apparently what had happened, was my dad had got the certificate, put it on his rack, raised the mattress up to get the shoes underneath, and when he did, the license must have slid down a minuscule gap into the bottom of a dark bulkhead where it lay for 30 years until they tore it down.

They offered to send it to her, but I think my parents had been going through some tough times at that point, and the last thing on her mind was a piece of paper from her past about their wedding, so I think she told them somewhat curtly to throw it away...I wish she hadn't!

[Vaduz]

1973 Grateful Dead concert ticket no wonder why she lost the wallet.

[Deplorable American1776]

If you ever watched If these Walls could talk, they find all kinds of interesting things. 7 years ago, I lost a DeWalt nail gun, when I placed it in a hole between two walls. A few months ago, I was remodeling the house and my gun was found. It worked after I cleaned it up.

[faucetman]

“California theater renovations uncover wallet lost 46 years ago”

And in the article they thought it important to tell us that the drivers license had EXPIRED!