Have you ever lost your wallet? The response of most of us is probably – yes. I lost my wallet in 1984, when I worked in a printing press – someone stole it from my closet. Maybe someday in another 20 years, someone will dress renewal and is my wallet, no money, hidden above a false ceiling, or hidden under the floor, or behind a wall. Then I meet with a time of my life when I was a starving college student, working my way through college.
Although this seems an impossible story, or at least unlikely and rare, it is not. In fact, the loss or theft of wallets in turn all the time.
Before the advent of the Internet, these stories were amazing discoveries and local news. These stories were of people surprised to meet not only your wallet and the contents inside, but their lives from 20, 30, 40, before 50 years. The portfolio had the power to transport the fate of these people back to another point in his life.
Now we find these stories on line mainly through local news reports. Sometimes the stories national or even international news. But always, these are still local stories – his roots in small towns and large cities (including ports), where bags are lost and later rediscovered.
Seekers of these portfolios lose almost always unselfish and dedicated – led to find the owners, or relatives of deceased owners. In the rare cases where the money is still in his pockets (many of them are stolen and the money long ago eliminated), the money is returned along with the life history of the individual, encapsulated within a time machine leather . Love letters, school identification cards, photographs, stamps, greeting bowling league members – the ephemeral nature of a person’s life, everything is still there.
portfolio owners now met with something that has long forgotten, are universally surprised to be taken back to that earlier point in his life. They are equally surprised by the kindness and generosity of strangers who pass through all obstacles, time and money to keep track. To find and return a small piece of his past.
Here are ten such stories.
10 Wed sofa Kenneth Portland Oregon
Kenneth sofa was a hard job selling dental supplies and a veteran of World War II, well known to dentists all Portland area where he worked as a salesman at the time he was 17 years old. In 1982, he went for surgery and placed her purse in the desk drawer. The wallet was stolen.
Sometime in early 2010, Rudy Kaplan was working as a carpenter on a project at a hospital in Portland when he lifted a ceiling tile and saw an old wallet. When open, saw the photos of a man of advanced age and the children and decided to find the owner, or the children of the owners. Finally got in touch with the daughter and the son of Kenneth couch and returned the wallet. Without the stolen money, of course. For children, the portfolio was a life history in miniature of his father – records of World War II military, business cards, pictures of their children throughout the year, and a membership card of bowling.
9 Thu Benjamin Ferrone Peekskill New York
In 1999, Werner Ferrone received a call from someone saying that his father’s wallet had been found. Ferrone did not believe the caller and later admitted to being a bit rude to him. There were reasons to be skeptical, however, since his father, Benjamin Ferrone, died in 1982. But the next day, the young Ferrone flew to New York to retrieve the bag and shake hands with the man who found it.
The story began more than 60 years ago when Benjamin J. Ferrone, then 22 years old and lives in New York, visited the Paramount Theater in Peekskill, New York. While in the theater, the portfolio must have been stolen, robbed of cash and left in a basement. Although the Paramount Theater had been restored many times, that part of the theater has not been touched.
After the February 13, 1999, John Curtis, director of production for the theater, now known as the Paramount Center for the Arts, found the wallet while cleaning under a stairwell. Using the Social Security card in your wallet, San Juan and a local reporter tracked down the youngest Ferrone and called him.
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television program “Today” heard of the story and brought Ferrone and San Juan to New York, where he received his father’s portfolio Ferrone. The purse contained a driver’s license yellowed “Bennie Ferrone, with an incorrect birth date – evidence that his father had lied about his age to acquire a job – and a record of a used 1929 Ford Model A.
8 Wed Robert McIntyreEngland
One day Ian Clapton, a construction worker in England, found an old wallet hidden in a crack, while working on a roof . Inside was a card rationing of World War II, notes from family, theater tickets and all membership cards belonging to an American service was the Second World War. Clapton knew I had to find the true owner and return this portfolio. But how? This will set out on a mission that took the wallet of a tourist town in England, a country farm and the small town of Milladore, Wisconsin.
Sixty years after it was lost, Clapton was able to assemble a portfolio of the daughter of his former owner, Robert McIntyre – Cynthia McIntyre Kane. McIntyre was a Navy man stationed in England during World War II. Although he died in 2002, Ms. Kane said: “I almost feel like I’ve had some contact with my father again.” Although there was no money in your wallet (it is possible that the wallet was stolen and hidden by the thief to avoid detection) is priceless to Ms. Kane. Clapton went to a lot of trouble looking for the McIntyre family because he just wanted to see the book returned to the owner’s family.
McIntyre’s family is grateful for such a thoughtful person who found the wallet.
7 Wed Geissler KatherineEau Claire Wisconsin
In 1968, Katherine Geissler went to a bar in downtown Chippewa Falls. While she was there, someone stole his wallet. Forty years later Kent Andreas was renovating the basement of his home in Wisconsin in Eau Claire, when he found his wallet missing. How did your wallet at home is a mystery, especially considering the house had previously called the fire, has been flooded and had been transferred to a block from its original location. Within the portfolio had a coupon for a ten-cent beer. The bar is no longer open, or he could cash in his coupon for forty years. The exploration of the contents of your wallet than forty years, Geissler said he had a more active life after what he does now.
6 Bill Fulton Oregon Baker City
In 1946 Bill Fulton attended a basketball game Baker High School, and was sitting in the stands than in what is now the Baker Middle School gym. Sixty-three years later, when the wallet was found and returned to him, Fulton did not even remember losing. But apparently, he lost his wallet in the old gym and there was more than six decades. The book was in excellent condition, leather is still soft. Inside was his social security card and license the bike. While the removal of old bleachers from the gym balcony wall, Nathan Osborne found the wallet. Are also lost library books, homework and play programs. Fulton later had children who also attended schools in Baker and the 1960 was the creation of the Middle School to watch a game – not realizing how close he was to his lost wallet.
5 Wed Dewey Bartlett
Tulsa Oklahoma
One day Mike Tidwell received a call from the contractor working at home. Tidwell asked if he knew Dewey Bartlett. Tidwell did – Bartlett was the mayor of the city. The contractor reported that he had found Tidwell portfolio Bartlett. Tidwell assumed she had found the lost wallet open. In fact, the contractor was tearing the roof of the second floor of a closet and fell to the portfolio. When Tidwell retrieve the wallet, inside were a badge, a Coca-Cola Hi Fi Club membership card, a hunting and fishing license, and Tulsa 1959-1960 Catholic High School student ticket sports, all with the Dewey Bartlett name. This was not the mayor’s portfolio, Tidwell realized, was the portfolio of the mayor when he was a child.
Tidwell returned to the portfolio fiftieth year old, still in excellent condition, with Bartlett. His reaction – “God, look at that, I’ll be damned.” The portfolio was given by his father, Dewey Bartlett father, an Oklahoma governor and U.S. senator. His father gave him wallets of his travels around the country. Bartlett had no problem identifying this book, many of their portfolios. This was a missing piece, chewed by your pet collie. Bartlett meant he lost his wallet at the age of 13 years in the best of his friend Ricky Mahan home. Ricky Mahan old house is now home to Mike Tidwell. But Bartlett can not remember how he lost his wallet or the way they finished ahead of a cabinet bedroom second floor ceiling.
4 Thu Ruth Bendik New York City
October 24, 1982, Bendik Ruth was at the center of New York, Park, watching the New York marathon, when someone stole his wallet. Twenty years later Josh Galiley, a tree care supervisor of the Central Park Conservancy, was cutting 50-foot black cherry when she discovered her blue leather bag in the trunk of the tree. With the help of people like Detective Frank Irizarry, Bendik at the end and returned the wallet. The $ 20 he had in his wallet was gone, but not the memories. Among other things, he found two credit cards from banks which have gone out of business. Although the portfolio survived 27 years, banks have not.
3 JamesLubeckMarblehead harbor of Boston
In 1966, a businessman was trying to secure his boat in the face of an approaching storm. Even with his business suit, bowed to protect your boat sailing against the wind and the gathering of the portfolio fell from his back pocket into Marblehead Harbor. Within the portfolio was $ 300 in checks from business expense. Lubeck hired a local diver to find his wallet, but had moved away. Unlike the loss of a wallet on land, the loss of one in a port usually ...
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