Students in Beaumont, Texas, found a ticket for a ride down memory lane in a wallet they returned to the owner who lost it 40 years ago.
Three Central High School students were helping their French teacher clean out a closet Friday when one of the students, Arvis Owens, found a torn, fake-alligator-skin green wallet.The four didn't find any money but did find yellowing photographs, a 3-cent stamp and a handwritten driver's license dated Jan. 30, 1950, the Beaumont Enterprise Journal said.
Teacher Kris Galles made a few phone calls using the phone book and the name and Beaumont address listed on the license - Patricia Graves, 385 Gober Road.
After three calls, Galles found Graves' stepmother, who gave her the current phone number.
Graves, now married and named Patricia Henderson, said she did not recall losing the wallet. But her face lit up when she pulled out 40-year-old pictures of her little sister and her 17-year-old self in "pin-up girl" poses.
Henderson, now a drainage district commissioner in Beaumont, said she was thrilled to have the wallet back and to find the students so interested.