Found a 1950s movie ticket stub in a copy of The Great Gatsby

I picked up a used copy of The Great Gatsby from a library sale in Cleveland last Saturday and found a ticket stub from 1953 tucked inside. It was for a showing of "Roman Holiday" at a theater that's been closed for decades. The ticket only cost 50 cents back then, which blew my mind. Whoever owned that book must have used it as a bookmark for over 70 years. Has anyone else found anything that old in a book?

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brooke76724d ago

That 50 cents thing really puts it in perspective. I swear, finding old stuff in books is like a time capsule nobody asked for but everyone loves. I've been noticing a bigger pattern lately, how people back then held onto physical things as proof of a moment - a ticket stub, a receipt, a letter. Now everything's digital and we don't have that same connection to our own history. My grandma still has a shoebox full of ticket stubs from the 40s and 50s, but I can't even remember the last movie I saw in theaters without checking my phone. It's like we traded real memories for convenience, and finding that stub in a book is a little reminder of what we lost.

patriciah5125d ago

Always heard stories about finding old stuff in books but never saw it myself. That's crazy cool though. Roman Holiday is a classic, and 50 cents for a movie ticket sounds like a dream now. Read somewhere that people used to save ticket stubs as keepsakes all the time back then, like a little memory from a fun night out. Wonder if the person who left it there even remembered doing it years later.