Woman's wallet from 1958 is found in movie theatre bathroom - with library cards and gas receipts unearthing trove from a by-gone era

A woman's wallet left behind in a cinema bathroom in the mid-twentieth century has been found more than six decades later and reunited with her living relatives. 

Floy Culbreth accidentally left her valuables at Atlanta's Plaza Movie Theater in 1958 - and it was only uncovered during recent renovations. 

The red leather dust-covered relic was brushed off and given to her daughter, Thea Chamberlain. 

'It has meant more than I realized that it would, truly,' Chamberlain told Investigate TV of the unexpected find, which still contained her mother's old bank cards and family photographs. 

'Floy Culbreth was actually stared as Floy Porter. To be honest, mother losing stuff would not have been a surprise.' 

Floy Culbreth (pictured) accidentally left her valuables at Atlanta's Plaza Movie Theater in 1958 - and it was only uncovered during recent renovations

The red leather dust-covered relic was brushed off and given to her daughter

The Plaza Movie Theater is Atlanta's oldest continuously-operating independent movie theater after opening as an art deco cinema in 1939

The wallet contained credit cards for Davison's and Rich's Department Stores, gas receipts (10 gallons for $3.26), and Culbreth's ID. 

Culbreth died more than a decade ago, but her wallet was traced to her living relatives through the medium of 21st-century internet sleuthing. 

Chris Escobar, who owns the movie theater, said his wife set to work on finding the woman's relatives online, a task which only took her a couple of hours. 

Escobar said the decades-old wallet was uncovered in the corner of the ladies restroom by construction workers. 

He said it was covered by brick and dust after being left in a small closet in the restroom.  

'Once we started taking off the old tile, we discovered a little piece of the wall fell out here in this corner,' Escobar told Investigate TV. 

'And then we see this space behind the wall that no one knew was there. That's when we discovered this incredible, little historic find.'

'It has meant more than I realized that it would, truly,' Thea Chamberlain (pictured) said of the unexpected find, which still contained her mother's old bank cards and family photographs

Culbreth died more than a decade ago, but her wallet was traced to her living relatives through the medium of 21st-century internet sleuthing

The wallet contained credit cards for Davison's and Rich's Department Stores, gas receipts (10 gallons for $3.26), and Culbreth's ID (pictured)

The Plaza Movie Theater is Atlanta's oldest continuously-operating independent movie theater after opening as an art deco cinema in 1939. 

It became an X-rated adult cinema and live burlesque venue in the 1970s, until returning back to a theater showing arthouse and independent films as it changed hands again in the following decades. 

The Georgia theater retained the original marquee and many of its original furnishings.