# Stolen wallet recovered 40 years later is a miniature time-capsule

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-wallet-recovered-40-years-later-is-a-miniature-time-capsule/633963>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 7, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-wallet-recovered-40-years-later-is-a-miniature-time-capsule/633963 "2012-09-07T06:46:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-wallet-recovered-40-years-later-is-a-miniature-time-capsule/633963/1 "2012-09-07T06:46:54Z")

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> **[Stolen wallet recovered 40 years later is a miniature time-capsule](https://boingboing.net/2012/09/05/stolen-wallet-recovered-40-yea.html)**
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> A 2011 piece from the NYT's David W. Dunlap tells the story of the recovery of a long-lost wallet that was stolen from a Times art director in 1970, and…

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> the story of the recovery of a long-lost wallet that was stolen from a Times art director in 1970, and which was recovered from “a void between an old unused window on the second floor and the masonry seal behind it”

hmmm… something very vaguely familiar about this

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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-wallet-recovered-40-years-later-is-a-miniature-time-capsule/633963/2 "2012-09-07T20:19:14Z")

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> [@madrabbitwoman](#):
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> hmmm… something very vaguely familiar about this

just for you folks who don’t get the joke, here’s the link:  
[to the 10-page thread in which Dopers solve the mystery of a lost wallet from the 1970’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=403719)

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-wallet-recovered-40-years-later-is-a-miniature-time-capsule/633963/3 "2012-09-07T20:43:30Z")

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> [@chappachula](#):
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> just for you folks who don’t get the joke, here’s the link:  
> [to the 10-page thread in which Dopers solve the mystery of a lost wallet from the 1970’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=403719)

That was neat. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stolen-wallet-recovered-40-years-later-is-a-miniature-time-capsule/633963/4 "2012-09-07T23:36:52Z")

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> [@chappachula](#):
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> just for you folks who don’t get the joke, here’s the link:  
> [to the 10-page thread in which Dopers solve the mystery of a lost wallet from the 1970’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=403719)

**Heads up:** In post #67 of that thread, Hal Briston gives a link to “Under the wallpaper I removed from my daughter’s room”. Clicking it got an immediate warning pop-up from Avast:

Infection Details

URL: [http://dsparking](http://dsparking) [dot] com/?epl  
Process: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox…  
Infection: HTML:RedirME-inf [Trj]

Now I’ll never find out what Hal found under the wallpaper.