- Floy Culbreth accidentally left his valuables at the Plaza Movie Theater in 1958.
- Atlanta, Ga. theater owner reunited wallet with daughter
- It still contained his bank cards, family photos and identity papers.
A woman’s wallet abandoned in a cinema toilet in the mid-20th century was found more than six decades later and found her loved ones alive.
Floy Culbreth accidentally left his valuables at Atlanta’s Plaza Movie Theater in 1958 – and it was only discovered during recent renovations.
The relic covered in red leather dust was brushed and given to his daughter, Thea Chamberlain.
“It really means more than I imagined,” Chamberlain told Investigate TV of the unexpected find, which still contained his mother’s old bank cards and family photos.
“Floy Culbreth was actually considered Floy Porter. To be honest, my mother losing things wouldn’t have been a surprise.
Floy Culbreth (pictured) accidentally left his valuables at Atlanta’s Plaza Movie Theater in 1958 – and it was only discovered during recent renovations.
The relic covered in red leather dust was brushed and given to his daughter
The Plaza Movie Theater is Atlanta’s oldest operating independent movie theater since opening as an art deco movie theater in 1939.
The wallet contained credit cards from Davison’s and Rich’s department stores, gasoline receipts (10 gallons for $3.26), and Culbreth’s identification.
Culbreth died more than a decade ago, but her portfolio has been traced to her living relatives through 21st century internet searches.
Chris Escobar, owner of the theater, said his wife set to work tracking down the woman’s relatives online, a task that took only a few hours.
Escobar said the decades-old wallet was discovered in the corner of the women’s restroom by construction workers.
He said it was covered in bricks and dust after being left in a small closet in the toilet.
“Once we started removing the old tiles, we discovered that a small piece of wall had fallen down here, in this corner,” Escobar told Investigate TV.
“And then we see this space behind the wall that no one knew existed.” That’s when we discovered this incredible little historical discovery.
“It really means more than I imagined,” 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 portfolio has been traced to her living relatives through 21st century internet searches.
The wallet contained credit cards from Davison’s and Rich’s department stores, gasoline receipts (10 gallons for $3.26), and Culbreth’s identification (pictured).
The Plaza Movie Theater is Atlanta’s oldest operating independent movie theater since opening as an art deco movie theater in 1939.
It became an over the following decades.
The Georgia Theater retains the original marquee and many of its original furnishings.
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