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July 13, 2009 |
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Wallet
FOUND by Amelia Schroeder
in Marietta, OH
Found a wallet Friday night as I was riding my bike home from work. It looked picked over and I almost didn't stop. It's the black velcro kind with a picture of a deer on the front.
There was no ID inside, only $1, a wad of newspaper ads for tractors and a handful of about 20 pictures. These are a few of the best.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Whoever lost their wallet had a picture of John Boy Walton?
How does a wallet look "picked over"? Obviously it wasn't if it still contained even one dollar.
LOL @ Dogbreath!
The photos seem about the same vintage (I remember those teardrop spectacle frames from my early childhood). I wonder if these are pics of the happy couple? Childhood sweethearts. I hope we get to see a few more of the pictures.
I am interested in what may be written on the backs of the pics.
I'm thinking the boy in the family photo (click on "magnify") is grinning because he knows his mom will look at the photo on Found years after it was taken and think only about how goofy her hair looks.
These photos are pretty varied and worn. Must have been some Grandpa's, a guy who loved his family deeply but didn't actually get to see them too often.
Or maybe they belonged to a guy who collected random snapshots and PRETENDED they were his family. He likely made up stories about all of them like we're doing.
I think the owner must really miss those photos.
What is the top guy resting his hand atop?
@Tim in TN, he's got his elbow over the back of a chair and his hand resting on the top.
Also, I'm with you on the owner missing the photos. Probably belonged to some sad, old street person that had very little to his name. Now, he's lost the tiny thread to the family/friends he loved.
lost pictures make me sad.
It's Sandy Dee and Vinnie Zucco as thirty-somethings!
The gentleman is very striking! Gorgeous!
At first I thought he was holding a cane...
He is strikingly handsome and quite magnetic (and knows it, too). His eyes appear slightly divergent. Or maybe one of them is a glass eye!
She is lovely too. I'd guess (both) circa 1960?
Shame there was no clue in the wallet so that you could try to return it to its owner. Seems so sad. No point taking it to a police station or advertising in a local paper?
Is it a small town (forgive me)? Worth showing them around in case some senior person recognizes the sitters?? Who knows.
Perhaps an ad posted in the same vicinity of the found wallet may prompt the owner to call. It seems odd to carry so many photos, espcially ones so old, and may be an indication of a homeless person carrying all his possessions with him. How sad.
Or perhaps our wallet owner is a long-term stalker and keeps the photos to show what his victims looked like when he first starter stalking them.
I am however, quite intrigued by the ads for tractors. Is there any consistency in the ads? Is he keeping copies of his ads to sell his tractors, allowing him some cash flow? Is he adding to a collection of old tractors that he tries to hide from his wife, and because he's so good at it, he needs to keep these ads to remember what he owns? Or is he dreaming of the good ol' days when he could afford to collect tractors?
What might make Raimundo (he's got to have a name, doesn't he?) look a little striking is that his shirt buttons the 'wrong way' (right side over left) for a guy, and that his pencils and pocket protector (sans sliderule) is in his right pocket. So either it was printed backwards, or he's left-handed.
Or I'm trying to avoid those spooky follow-you-around-the-room eyes.
I might be misinterpreting the finder's blurb and if so I apologize, but it made me a little sad where she said "It looked picked over and I almost didn't stop." Is the only reason for stopping to pick up a lost wallet the hope that there might be money in it, and if it's been "picked over" there's no point in trying to rescue and return it? )c:
I'll second "I have three cats"'s suggestion of putting up a flyer in the area. These photos are so old, they've GOT to have a lot of significance for the wallet's owner, and it'd be awesome if they could be returned. Plus, if you make the "found your wallet" flyer interesting enough, perhaps it will wind up on Found in its own time, and how meta would that be?!
The man reminds me of my father, in pictures of him before WWII. (when he still had hair. He lost it all while in a concentration camp) He would sit like that, often, with his arm over the back. He was also left handed, Librarian, it strikes me as odd/coincidental that you would notice that. It's the eyes, i think. I miss him so much.
A Dad pic (or he knows actor Michael York) a wife with glasses pic - a wife without glasses and 2 kids pic - and granddaughter....
I like the Dad pic - and granddaughter shot I like due to her not looking at the camera...
@mona lisa ...
I'm a librarian. I notice things. It's my job.
Here's to your father!
Raimundo (top picture) was a WWII victim, but had luckily survived and later met his beautiful wife, Risa. They had a daughter named Debbie (bottom picture). Debbie had two children, Joey and Kathy (top picture, magnify). When Kathy was older, she posed for the bottom picture (magnify).
It really bothers me that these pictures are all over the internet. It's not an old wallet or something found in an old house where you think all the people concerned are long gone. Someone is probably looking for this wallet. I would encourage the finder to put up a flyer, as others have suggested.
I wish this were my family.
Lonely in space, you just broke my heart. That's got to be one of the saddest post I've seen in a long time. Consider yourself cyber hugged.
It's interesting that someone today would be carrying around such old photos. It couldn't have been a very old wallet, being a velcro one.
I agree with everyone else who was touched by the sadness of this loss.
It makes me think it must have been the wallet of a very old person, maybe someone with Alzheimer's, not necessarily homeless, but still, lost his wallet. It's hard to imagine why there was no ID at all. No names on the backs of the pictures? None of them signed? That's curious.
I'd photocopy them and put them on a flyer, and post copies in the vicinity, as others suggested.
all adults have ID, so I have to conclude that this wallet was likely carried around by a kid - hat is until it fell out of his pocket while being chased by bullies on his bike. Strange kid, getting his kicks off tractors and old photos. Harmless though.
This guy looks just like my doctor! My doctor is from Sweden, and his name is Claes, pronounced Claus. His eyes are very blue and very intense. I can't stop blushing when he looks at me, even when fully clothed. I am never sure I have gotten the proper diagnosis, because he surely thinks I have some vascular issues, due to the blushing and the fact that I just stammer incoherent symptoms at him. Thank goodness he isn't my gynecologist!
The problem with posting a "found your wallet!" notice is that it was probably Found (and the photos submitted) two or three years ago.
The thing about Finders' Blurbs is that they're not all-inclusive. It's quite possible that Amelia DID post a flyer, or a notice on the bulletin board of the local grocery store. We simply don't know what happened next.
brain problem situation in my head:
Next time you go see him, say either:
"I bought a bookcase from you guys and still haven't put it together."
or...
"Your just mad because you got killed at the end od DIE HARD."
It is upsetting that this person sent these photos which were obviously treasured in to Found. If I found this wallet and was unsuccessful at finding the owner I would have never split the photos up out of respect.