<p>VENTURA, Calif. &mdash; A woman from Ventura was reunited with a wallet she lost 46 years ago after an employee working on remodeling Southern California’s historic Majestic Ventura Theater discovered it inside a crawl space.</p>
<p>“I would have never imagined,” said Tom Stevens after locating the wallet among old candy bar wrappers, ticket stubs and soda cans. </p>
<p>Stevens <a href="https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/ventura/2021/06/02/ventura-woman-reunites-wallet-lost-majestic-theater/5244352001/">told </a> the Ventura County Star he then went on social media to try to locate the owner based off of clues in the wallet, including old photos, a Grateful Dead concert ticket from 1973 and a California driver’s license for Colleen Distin that expired in 1976. There was no money in the wallet.</p>
<p>“Does anyone know Colleen Distin?” he asked on the theater’s Facebook page. “While doing some maintenance we have found her wallet. There are a bunch of pictures of people, and they are super cool from that era also. Someone may want them. So if you are, or if you know Colleen, drop us a line and we will have it here for you!”</p>
<p>Stevens’ boss, Loanne Wullaert, suggested posting the information on social media. </p>
<p>“We’re at almost 1,000 shares, a ridiculous amount of comments and then it went to all these other sites,” Wullaert said Monday. “I think it’s cool that people care and are interested.”</p>
<p>Distin, who grew up in Ventura and remains a resident, said she heard from a lot of people online and received a call about the post on social media. She responded May 25, a couple hours after the posting, that the wallet was hers.</p>
<p>Distin on Friday went to pick up the red wallet, now brownish with age, and said it was like opening a “time capsule.”</p>
<p>Distin said she lost the wallet in 1975 when she was in her early 20s. She said her wallet must have fell through a hole in her purse. At the time, she said her wallet had a $200 check and family photos inside.</p>
<p>“I remember calling the next day when I realized it was gone. They said no one found it, but to call back, which I did. I had a little bit of money in it, but I needed it at the time," Distin said. “I have no idea what photos are in there, or which concert ticket since I did go to many back then. Such a blast from the past, and a good one I must say.”</p>
<p>Distin said she was initially reluctant to talk publicly about her experience but she said there was such a positive response that she gave in.</p>
<p>“It says a lot about our society, that people are looking for a human story and something to feel good,” she said. “People need to see the gratitude. I think there’s so much other negative stuff that I think this is what touched people.”</p>