Lost wallet found after 55 years

[Story]

A wallet misplaced during a romantic embrace has been returned to its forgetful owner after 55 years.

Two classic car collectors from the US state of Idaho found the wallet after it fell out of the back of a vintage car they were planning to restore.

After an internet search they found and contacted the owner, Glenn Goodlove.

Mr Goodlove said he probably lost the wallet in the back seat of his 1946 Hudson car while kissing a girl when he was home on leave from the US Navy.

Rest of story at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6634215.stm

 

[Miss Neecerie]

After an internet search they found and contacted the owner, Glenn Goodlove.

Goodlove indeed. lol

 

[Story]

Goodlove indeed. lol

Yeah, dey wuz "kissin". Wink wink, nudge nudge.

 

[Sweet Polly Purebred]

55 years is a long time to wait for something you lost in the backseat of a car to return. I know a few ladies who'll be thrilled to get their's back ..

 

[PADDY]

Has the girl ever been found?

Or are they still mounting a full scale search of the car, using State Troopers and FBI..?

Those back seats of old cars are dangerous places to be kanoodling after dark, many a person has been lost down the back of them.

I remember the story of one car owner, a Mister Van Winkle...

 

[dhermann1]

Classy classic car!

I've seen that car advertised. It's a real project car (meaning it needs a lot of work), but a very nice one. The ad is gone now, but this is what it should look like restored:
http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/hudson/unspecified/450829.html
The Hudsons of that era were the fastest cars on the road.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Mr Goodlove said he probably lost the wallet in the back seat of his 1946 Hudson car while kissing a girl when he was home on leave from the US Navy.

Must have been some kiss!

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[Marc Chevalier]

Has the girl ever been found?

Quote of the week! lol :eusa_clap

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[Story]

More tales from the "Land of the Lost"

Updated:2007-06-08 14:55:23
Watch Lost in WWI Returned to Grandsons
AP

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (June 7) - A World War I veteran's watch lost nearly 90 years ago, has stood the test of time. William B. Gill lost his watch in France, where he served in the U.S. Army. Another man, Carl Grothaus, won it in a poker game and brought it back to South Dakota.

Grothaus searched to no avail for the owner based on an engraving on the back: "W.B. Gill, Sioux City, IA, U.S.A."

After Grothaus' death, his son, Dewey, enlisted the help of Peggy Powell, a genealogist in Hornick.

In April, Powell located Gill's grandson, Lloyd, in Springfield, Mo.

Lloyd Gill and his brother Bill Gill of Keizer, Ore., reclaimed the watch Wednesday at the American Legion Post 1981 in Sioux City.

Their grandfather died in 1962 in Omaha, Neb., after suffering from effects of mustard gas exposure during the war.*

"To see that watch and hold it in my hand, knowing it belonged to my grandfather," said Lloyd Gill, pausing and slowly shaking his head in a loss for words, "I don't know if I can describe it."

 

[patrick1987]

I've stopped speculating as to why the lovebird had his wallet out at all.

 

[Story]

More prodigal billfolds.

Man's Wallet Found After 43 Years
AP
Posted: 2007-06-19 17:34:43
EL CENTRO, Calif. (June 19) - A man who lost his wallet 43 years ago has gotten it back, with his old charge cards, dusty photographs and birth certificate still inside.

Construction workers renovating a movie theater discovered Epigmenio Sanchez's billfold on Friday jammed between the metal casings of a radiator. He lost it in 1964.

"I remember losing it," said Epigmenio Sanchez, 70, of Brawley. "I just don't remember where."

Between the folds of crumbling brown leather were fragments of his past: a few family pictures, old pay stubs and a couple of department store charge cards. His birth certificate, which Sanchez carried when he went to Mexico to prove he was a U.S. citizen, was also there.

The only thing not in the wallet was money - but Sanchez said he can't remember whether he had any cash on him when the wallet went missing at the Crest Theater.

The theater has been vacant for years and is being converted into a concert venue. Workers found the wallet after sawing apart a radiator to lift it out.

 

[NicolettaRose]

I love these old stories, great stuff!

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I love hearing things like this.

Warms the heart.

I Have a Returned Wallet Story of My Own.

Had to stop in the middle of the street and open the car door to pick up a dropped wallet. I continued to the next driveway to find out who the owner was. I called his doctor and dentist, but both favored not giving me the owner's address, for obvious reasons. And these days, I don't blame them. So, I used my many years of driving experience to find him.

I pulled his license out, saw he lived on a major road I knew little about, other than where it was, and went searching for his apartment complex.

I knocked on his door, and a moment later he opened it. I asked if he was Thomas. He said yes, and I started reaching for my back pocket. (It wasn't until later that I realized what could have gone wrong - me, a white man, asking a black man his name and then reaching behind me!) I handed him his wallet and he said, "Wait here!"

He went back into his apartment, grabbed the phone and started telling the party on the other end not to worry, to disregard everything, everthing was okay.

When he got back to me, he said he'd been on the phone cancelling a credit card! He then told me that he was about to cancel a trip to San Diego, that day, too! Then he told me that he'd gone to the dry cleaners, and had done a little shopping, and placed his wallet on the bumper while he put his packages in the trunk.

He then opened his wallet and pulled out cash. I told him I'd been one to have lost my wallet, before, and that I didn't want his money; that getting it back to him was all that mattered, I knew the hassle. He shoved the cash into my hand and said "Take it. I can get more money anytime. You just saved me a lot of trouble."

It was a good day for both of us.


Lee
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Being honest pays - sometimes, it pays exactly eighty dollars.

 

[Story]

This just in...

$400,000 in 1930s-era bills found in derelict deli

Updated Fri. Jul. 11 2008 11:29 AM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Junk haulers in Vancouver got quite a surprise while clearing out the apartment above a derelict deli -- turning up close to $1,000 in bills dating back to the 1930s.

The cash, found hidden under a rug, was only a small fraction of the treasure that was stashed in the building.

Shortly afterwards, the caretaker for the building found a paper bag stuffed with $400,000 in dusty bills, also dating back 70 years. By today's standards, the Depression-era nest egg would be worth an estimated $50 million.

Brendan Fuss, who was working on the 1-800-Got-Junk crew that found the initial $1,000, said the discovery was unexpected.

The crew was cleaning out the apartment after the death of the former owner.

"It was a little bit of a surprise for sure," Fuss told CTV's Canada AM on Friday.

"You don't usually think that you're going to find anything much of value after everybody has sort of been through the building and you think you're just going to find carpeting and such. But yeah, all of a sudden a lot of money is showing up and it definitely sparks interest pretty fast."

Though others might have been tempted to quietly slip the cash into a pocket for safekeeping, Duff said the thought never crossed his mind.

"Not really, especially considering the age of the money. It wasn't just fifties, it was multiple hundreds of dollar bills from decades ago, more than 50 years ago, 60, 70 years ago. And just because of the uniqueness of the money it wasn't even really a thought to hang onto it. It was more just a thrill to even find it."

The east Vancouver building, which housed a closed-down deli called the Lido, has now been sold, and the current owners know little about the previous owner, a woman named Margaret Rothweiler who died in February.

She had lived in the building since the 1940s and ran the business with her husband for several years. However, the shop had not been opened in recent memory.

Current co-owner of the building Jonathan Kerridge and his business partner have imagined all kinds of scenarios about where the money may have come from: bank robberies, bootlegging, Nazi war criminals.

However, one of Rothweiler's relatives suggested the answer is probably much less sinister.

"Margaret knew how to hold on to a buck,'' Jack Rothweiler, Margaret's nephew, told CTV British Columbia. "That's a family trait. I've got some squirreled away too."

Currency expert Brian Grant Duff told Canada AM the value of the bills to coin collectors will depend on their condition, serial numbers and the signature on the notes.