Associated Press
 
June 29, 2009
 
BAKER CITY, Ore. -- Bill Fulton doesn't remember losing his wallet, but its return helped him remember the past.
 
The leather stayed smooth and the cowboy design unblemished. The zipper moved with ease. And when he looked inside, the contents brought back memories from 1946, when he apparently dropped the wallet behind the bleachers in the Baker Middle School gym.
 
Fulton's Social Security card and bicycle license, bearing the address where he lived during his teenage years, were as he had left them.
 
Worker Nathan Osborne found the wallet, along with old homework, lost library books and a 1964 talent show program, while removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17. It was brought to Fulton's door the following day by Melanie Trindle, the Baker Middle School secretary.