The wallet stolen 40 years ago will be returned to the owner with the family memories photos

In 2007, 43-chome's old company building (currentTimes Square BuildingFromRenzo PianoDesign of a skyscraperNew buildingMoved toNew York Times.

Security guards who wanted to find an old wallet with numerous photos and newspaper clippings in the wall of the former company building where renovation works going forward and wanted to return a wallet that would be memorable to the owner or his / her family, fortune With the help of a coincidence, it seems that he was able to return the wallet stolen in 1970 to the owner.

Details are as below.Wallet Found After 40 Years, Along With Special Photos - NYTimes.com

40-Year Reunion - Video Library - The New York Times

One day in 1970, Rudolph R. Resta (77), who was an art director at the then public relations department of the New York Times at that time, went to the closet with his wallet in his coat pocket when he went to work, When I took out the coat to go for lunch on lunch break, the purse seems to have disappeared.

"There were a lot of things in my wallet that I could not replace with money, such as important family photos, but I was giving up if I never come back again," Resta said. However, in 2010 which is 40 years since then, I was surprised to receive a phone calling "Mr. Resta, I found your wallet".


José Cisneros, a security guard who found a wallet from a hole in the wall on the second floor of the old building building (Times Square Building) where the interior was demolished, wanted to return the wallet to the owner or his family, Rafael I consulted Mr. Rodriguez.

Rafael Rodriguez (left) and José Cisneros (right)


Two people who thought that purse owner must be a former New York Times employee from an employee ID card and employee's transfusion card, etc. tried to contact the current New York Times head office by telephone, but " Or if you want to contact people, please tell the name after you press 0. Other than the automatic response message "... before the message ...", "Put the stolen wallet back to the former employee What should I do if I want to return ... ... "he said he was at a loss.

A purse with an ID that indicates that it is an employee of the New York Times.


The membership card of this press club has expiration date of January 31, 1972.


At that time, I casually visited a nearby movie theater, and I came to the lobby after the refurbishment of the former office building that I remembered in the time before the movie began. Former Internet director of the New York TimesGordy ThompsonMr. Rodriguez told Mr. Rodriguez at the security desk, "Mr. Rodriguez said," I worked here a while ago, can I look at some of the decorated architectural photos? " Mr. Rodriguez told Mr. Thompson, he quickly pulled out the wallet 40 years ago and explained the circumstances, Mr. Thompson contacted David W. Dunlap reporter who is current employee of the New York Times and is familiar with company history, Dunlap reporter Mr. Rudolph R. Resta who retired in 1999 retired from the wallet but found that he is currently living in New York and contacted him and the wallet in the former building and the "reunion" by Mr. Resta have been realized.

A hole in the wall where the wallet was found.


The criminal who stole the wallet 40 years ago hid the wallet after taking out the cash here, that he was falling in the gap between the unused window and the outside wall, and it was never discovered for 40 years It seems to be.


Mr. Resta handed a wallet from Mr. Cisneros, the discoverer's guard.


I am watching for a while in silent memories.


"I do not know what to say, Thank you so much," Mr. Resta kisses appreciation.


I found a photograph of my younger days and also boasted that I was proud that "You are a beautiful woman so married."


In 1963,Prospect ParkA picture of my wife Angela Resta who shot when I went to. "This is a genuine Jaguar fur, if you told me to go to Prospect Park, she wore a stag from Jaguar so quickly that she was really gorgeous and still beautiful," Resta says.


A photograph (left) of Mr. Nicola Resta of Italian immigrants who died 45 years ago and two sons Christopher and Paul (right) playing in the garden. Mr. Christopher and Paul are 47 and 42 at the moment, both of which are not far from Mr. Resta's residenceBelle HarborHe seems to live in.


My favorite photo that I took at Central Park.


The picture of the two sons,Coney IslandIt is about 25 cents speed photograph which I took with.


There are many things in the wallet that everything except cash was safe, besides the photographs, there are times that feel the times. Nowadays familiar with green cardsAmerican ExpressHowever, at that time it was a purple card on a white background.


A card you will receive when you go to the Mass.


I also included business cards and handwritten memos.


Newspaper clipping, in 1968Robert KennedyBrother after assassinationEdward KennedyMemorial speech by. Mr. Resta, who remembered carrying this clip, told his wife Angela that he should have been in a wallet before leaving home on the day of "reunion" with his wallet.


"If you were not there, you may not have found another 20 years, 40 years, I am really moved," Mr. Resta said. It seems that he was disappointed when his wallet was stolen 40 years ago, but he did not dream that he would meet again with memories photographs like a time capsule 40 years later.