- Floy Culbreth accidentally left his valuables at the Plaza Cinema in 1958
- Atlanta, GA theater owner reunited wallet with daughter
- It still contained his bank cards, family photographs and his ID.
A woman’s wallet forgotten in a movie theater bathroom in the mid-20th century has been found more than six decades later and reunited with her living relatives.
Floy Culbreth accidentally left his valuables at Atlanta’s Plaza movie theater in 1958, and they were only discovered during recent renovations.
The dust-covered red leather heirloom was removed and given to his daughter, Thea Chamberlain.
“It’s meant more than I thought, truly,” Chamberlain said. investigate television of the unexpected discovery, which still contained his mother’s old bank cards and family photographs.
‘Floy Culbreth was actually played as 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 Cinema in 1958, and it was only discovered during recent renovations.
The dust-covered red leather heirloom was removed and handed to his daughter.
The Plaza Movie Theater is Atlanta’s oldest continuously operating independent movie theater after opening as an art deco movie theater in 1939.
The wallet contained credit cards from Davison’s and Rich’s department stores, gas receipts (10 gallons for $3.26) and Culbreth’s identification.
Culbreth died more than a decade ago, but his wallet was traced to his living relatives through 21st-century Internet research.
Chris Escobar, owner of the theater, said his wife went to work finding the woman’s relatives online, a task that only took a couple of hours.
Escobar said construction workers discovered the decades-old wallet in the corner of the ladies’ room.
She said it was covered in bricks and dust after being left in a small cupboard in the bathroom.
“Once we started removing the old tiles, we discovered that a little piece of the wall fell off here in this corner,” Escobar told Investigate TV.
‘And then we see this space behind the wall that no one knew was there. “That’s when we discovered this incredible little historical find.”
“It’s meant more than I thought, really,” Thea Chamberlain (pictured) said of the unexpected find, which still contained her mother’s old bank cards and family photographs.
Culbreth died more than a decade ago, but his wallet was traced to his living relatives through 21st-century Internet research.
The wallet contained credit cards from Davison’s and Rich’s department stores, gas receipts (10 gallons for $3.26) and Culbreth’s identification (pictured).
The Plaza Movie Theater is Atlanta’s oldest continuously operating independent movie theater after opening as an art deco movie theater in 1939.
It became an
The Georgia Theater retained the original marquee and many of its original furnishings.
