Credit cards lost in 1966 are returned to owner
Published: August 20, 2005
In 1966, James Lubeck bent over to secure his sailboat against a gathering storm and his wallet slipped from his back pocket into Marblehead Harbor. The wallet and the credit cards inside were seemingly gone forever.
Recently Lubeck, 74, got word that a fisherman had hauled in the wallet’s sheath of credit cards in a net filled with cod, flounder and haddock.
Fisherman Antonino Randazzo hauled in the catch in June roughly 25 miles from where Lubeck lost the wallet. The sheath was caked in mud, but the 10 to 12 credit and identification cards were in pristine condition.
A total of $300 in expense checks, cash and leather of the wallet are gone, but the value of the find isn’t in what was recovered but what happened afterward, Lubeck said.
“It’s the idea that somebody reached out,” Lubeck said.
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