There's a special kind of panic that comes from realizing you may have misplaced your wallet
You dig through your pockets and fear and when you come up empty
Reality suddenly sets in short of a miracle you're gonna have to cancel all your cards and replace your ID
But what happens when your wallet is found long after it was lost is it still worth getting back after all those years
It's probably been replaced after all well
That's what the owner of a talent Factory Theatre in Nevada, Iowa had to ask when he came across a wallet that was lost
71 years before but the biggest surprise came from finding out who the owner was
Losing your wallet is one of the worst feelings in the world until
You replace your ID and credit cards it can be difficult to buy groceries drive to work
Or do just about anything not to mention you'll always worry
If someone's trying to impersonate you so when Larry Sloane the owner of the talent Factory comedy club in Nevada
Iowa came across a lost wallet. He made it his mission to try and find its owner as soon as possible
There was just one catch the wallet was very old Larry and his friend only discovered it while they were reviewing
Renovations that were being done on the third floor of the old club they noticed the small brown pouch wedged between two floorboards
The wallet was in remarkably good shape for being found in an area that hadn't been tended to in years
The brown leather was slightly faded and it had a layer of dust on it, but other than that it was in pristine condition
The two men opened it up, and that's when their jaws hit the floor
There were a number of items
Inside the wallet that were so old that the men didn't even recognize some of them the first item they pulled out were food
ration stamps from World War two
Larry and his friend couldn't believe it and they decided to keep rummaging
The next thing that they found was an old Boy Scout card
The edges were tattered and torn and the picture on the front looked like it was from decades earlier
Whomever this wallet belonged to must have spent some time in the scouts
The next few items they pulled out were old photos
Some of them were too old and faded to see clearly
But others had families and children depicted in them just how old was this wallet
What Larry and his friend found next finally gave them the answer they?
Came across a faded pocket calendar to their disbelief the year on the calendar was
1944 that meant that this wallet was over 70 years old
Whoever lost it had to have been just a young kid when it happened considering. There was a Boy Scout card inside
Now that Larry and his friend knew how old the wallet was they needed to figure out who it belonged to
Luckily inside was an ID card with the named Claire McIntosh written in blue ink on the top
They finally found the owner
Directly behind the identification card was a small black and white wallet size picture of a young man with the name Claire
McIntosh written beneath it
This was definitely the man whose wallet they found, but they couldn't locate him Larry and his friend were determined to find out what?
An amazing discovery if it weren't for those renovations
Larry and his friend would have never stumbled upon the wallet
But the question remained was Claire Macintosh still around after all those years
It's fascinating to think there was a time when Claire's family could be reached by simply dialing 8
How cool is it that he was able to retrieve his long-lost?
possession
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