# found wallet from the 70's **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 12, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659 "2007-01-12T03:35:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/281 "2007-03-12T19:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=King Friday] I just came across this thread and am riveted! I’m just glad I didn’t pick up on it January 11th, I’d have pulled my hair out by now. [/QUOTE] Lucky you… ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/282 "2007-03-21T05:07:14Z")
[QUOTE=butler1850] I had a lost class ring returned to me about 5 years after I lost it. It had dropped behind a locker in the mens locker room at my high school. Another student had his go to the same location, and when he went looking for his, found mine. I was easy to find, as I was still working in the supermarket where he also worked (I worked there through college). [/QUOTE] Heh… I gave mine to a girl at a graduation party… went to go pick up another keg… took it to a _different_ party… never saw her or it ever again. ---
**Author:** ![jimbeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jimbeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbeam)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/283 "2007-03-28T06:52:37Z")
Just thought I’d check in and see if the wallet ever found its’ owner. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/284 "2007-04-05T00:39:21Z")
I nearly signed up for Straightdope with “Donald Eugene Ivens” as my nick but I thought that would be silly/cruel. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/285 "2007-04-05T00:50:51Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] I nearly signed up for Straightdope with “Donald Eugene Ivens” as my nick but I thought that would be silly/cruel. [/QUOTE] heh. We like silly and cruel. Welcome home. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/286 "2007-04-05T00:58:42Z")
Thanks 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/287 "2007-04-05T01:13:14Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] I nearly signed up for Straightdope with “Donald Eugene Ivens” as my nick but I thought that would be silly/cruel. [/QUOTE] Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/288 "2007-04-05T22:22:39Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] I nearly signed up for Straightdope with “Donald Eugene Ivens” as my nick but I thought that would be silly/cruel. [/QUOTE] Welcome to the SDMB, **An Gadai**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/289 "2007-04-06T02:24:07Z")
Damn! I saw this thread yesterday and started reading it intently. As both a bystander and someone who used to work in the PI business, I was really looking forward to happy ending, but I didn’t finish yesterday. And now I’ve gotten to the end of the thread only to discover there’s been no resolution yet. ☹ It’s incredibly tempting to see if I could get one of the local (Los Angeles) television media outlets interested in picking up this story. I’d think they’d be interested both as a story about finding the lost man and about how an internet community with powerful and far-reaching resources have pulled together to try to solve the mystery! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/290 "2007-04-06T02:50:53Z")
Let’s get on it, then. KCAL9 lets you send email to suggest a story. KTLA has a link on their site. Fox 11 doesn’t have a specific contact for story ideas, but they seem open to phone calls. If you want to draft an email to KCAL9 and copy it to KTLA, I’ll call Fox. If you could show me the email first, that’d be great too. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/291 "2007-04-06T03:33:36Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Welcome to the SDMB, **An Gadai**. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/292 "2007-04-06T21:36:08Z")
I just want to add that I love this board. seriously thats all I wanted to add ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/293 "2007-04-07T10:40:46Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] I nearly signed up for Straightdope with “Donald Eugene Ivens” as my nick but I thought that would be silly/cruel. [/QUOTE] How about the anagram “Avenge and Delusion”. This guy is … elusive and and gone. Solve and I need a gun. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/294 "2007-04-08T22:35:37Z")
Just discovered this thread yesterday, and felt compelled to add a note, even though it refers to a “dead end” candidate for ownership of the wallet … [QUOTE=filmyak] 1 – the person with a different (by 1 letter) spelling of their last name at Graceland University moved to Lamoni, IA. We lost that trail already, but I did find out this person retired from the school and moved away. [/QUOTE] If so, he didn’t move far – Graceland University’s main campus is [in Lamoni.](http://www.graceland.edu/) When U.S. Senator Paul Simon was campaigning for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, he played off the then-recent success of [this album](http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=fSDNK-vMuCD&aid=ydlh97zRVdP&sa=X&oi=music&ct=result) by making an appearance at the school and billing it as “Paul Simon Comes to Graceland”. ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/295 "2007-04-30T13:09:10Z")
Fascinating story. Any updates? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/296 "2007-05-02T19:35:01Z")
I just did a search on [ASK.com](http://ASK.com) Ivens, Donald E. has three adresses associated with the name. Ehrenberg, Arizona Bell Gardens California Mecca, California no street adress, though. Have these towns been searched already? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/297 "2007-05-02T20:05:54Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] I just did a search on [ASK.com](http://ASK.com) Ivens, Donald E. has three adresses associated with the name. Ehrenberg, Arizona Bell Gardens California Mecca, California no street adress, though. Have these towns been searched already? [/QUOTE] I see Scotandrsn beat me to it. :o ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/298 "2007-05-02T20:13:31Z")
A similar story in the news today: [Stolen Wallet Found After 56 Years](http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070502/D8OSBSPO0.html) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/299 "2007-05-03T00:33:56Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] Have these towns been searched already? [/QUOTE] Yes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659/300 "2007-05-03T13:03:04Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] A similar story in the news today: [Stolen Wallet Found After 56 Years](http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070502/D8OSBSPO0.html) [/QUOTE] For this reason alone the OP NEEDS to get the local press on this! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-wallet-from-the-70s/387659.md?page=16)