When Tom Schopf lost his wallet as a 17-year-old student at Stoney Creek's Orchard Park Secondary School in Ontario, he assumed he had seen the last of it, but last week he was reunited with the long-lost wallet after over half a century.
Construction workers at the school found the wallet when they were demolishing a bathroom wall. Inside was Shopf's driver's license, social security card, student ID, and several other personal items dating back to 1974.
A caretaker at the school was easily able to find Schopf, who still lives in the area, on Facebook and sent him a message.
Schopf told The Hamilton Spectator,
Initially, I thought it was a prank because they're saying there's a social insurance card and a birth certificate in there -- and I thought, 'Well, I already have those things.' But in reflection, I remembered I renewed them at some point and said I might as well go down to the school and check this out.
Upon seeing the wallet, he was vaguely able to recall losing it, and there was no doubt that it belonged to him. It even contained a photo of his childhood home where his mother still lives.
Flipping through the things in there, it was a trip down amnesia lane.
Unfortunately, there was no money in the wallet, and Schopf suspects it ended up in the wall after someone cleaned him out and threw the wallet up into the ceiling tiles, where it made its way behind the wall, where it sat for the next 51 years.
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