Abandoned storage locker reveals a long-lost wallet — and a glimpse into Diane Keaton's past

I’m sitting about a mile from there right now. I had no idea Diane Keaton was from Santa Ana. Everybody calls this city a ghetto shithole, I never would have thought anyone famous was from here. (let me add, I love it here. And I don’t think it’s a shithole, but ask anyone from OC who doesn’t live here, and that’s what you’ll be told)

My friend lives across the street from that address, and I parked in front of that house last week. I had no idea. I wonder if the house there now is the same one she lived in.

Me too! It’s in Floral Park.

I lived right in front of Edison elementary in Santa Ana!

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Yes. She was called "Annie" as a nickname for "Diane", "Hall" is her real last name, and Woody wrote the movie for her/ about her because he was charmed by her goofy nature. Per imdb.

Treasure hunter bought an abandoned storage locker. Found 32 photos from Diane Keaton (née Hall)’s youth/ childhood, including the driver’s license you see in the article photo. He has been trying to return the items to her, but has not been able to reach her.

It looked like a regular old wallet, stuffed in a dusty wooden box and left behind in an abandoned storage locker.

Treasure hunter Anton Lulgjuraj found it after purchasing the contents of a deserted unit at Life Storage in Brewster, Putnam County, during an auction last May.

The Dutchess County dad cracked open the brown leather pocketbook, not expecting much, and found a stack of 32 personal and family snapshots.

The name on the 1966 California Driver's License, Diane Hall, didn't ring any bells — but the woman in the photos looked familiar.

A big fan of the 1972 flick "The Godfather," Lulgjuraj said the woman looked just like the character played by Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton in the classic mob movie.

"I opened it up and thought, is this Diane Keaton the actress? It couldn't be. Or maybe it could," Lulgjuraj, 45, a who lives in Hopewell Junction, told the Daily News.

Everything in the wallet appeared to be at least 50 years old, he said.

"I was so curious," he said. "It was like a time capsule."

A married father of two daughters and a son, Lulgjuraj said he was also struck by an adorable black and white photo showing a young girl believed to be Keaton standing with a younger boy and girl who could be her siblings.

One particularly poignant snap appears to show Keaton's late parents, Dorothy Deanne Keaton and Jack Newton Ignatius Hall, tenderly holding hands while walking on a beach.

"It's such a nice shot, really classic. You look at it and get a good feeling," Lulgjuraj said.

He said further inspection revealed the wallet also contained Keaton's Actors' Equity card that expired in 1968. It was likely Keaton's first such card using her stage name.

The wallet contained Diane Keaton’s Actors' Equity card that expired in 1968. It was likely Keaton’s first such card using her stage name.

Lulgjuraj said it's a mystery how the wallet ended up in the storage shed filled with the belongings of a man named David Parent, an Air Force pilot who attended Fordham University.

He said someone apparently stowed the belongings after Parent's death and stopped paying the unit's rent after about a decade.

Keaton, meanwhile, mentioned in a 1978 interview that she twice left wallets in cabs. Maybe this was one of those wallets. Or maybe Keaton knew the pilot.

Lulgjuraj said he set out to contact Keaton, 72, to return the items but hasn't had any luck. When he reached out to her directly on Twitter, the only response he got was from a fan who commented on how cool his discovery was, he said.

Repeated attempts by The News to reach Keaton directly and through her acting reps were similarly unsuccessful.

Lulgjuraj says he's not looking for a reward and simply wants to reunite the irreplaceable family photos with the "Annie Hall" star.

He already made a tidy profit off the contents of the storage locker, he said, selling a 1913 vintage Indian motorcycle for 10 times the amount of his winning bid.

Either way, Lulgjuraj said he mostly bids on lockers as a hobby. He was a previous owner of the family-run Elk Candy Company that was a fixture on the Upper East Side since 1933.

The third-generation chocolate manufacturer closed its brick-and-mortar shop in 2006 due to soaring rents, and Lulgjuraj says he's now "semiretired."

He said he hopes Keaton somehow sees The News' story and reaches out. He's not nearly as hard to find as the A-list actress, he chuckled.

"Maybe she remembers that lost wallet and has always wondered. I'm hoping she didn't lose faith," Lulgjuraj said.

"If she wants it, I'm happy to send it. I figured I would want it. These are her memories," he said Friday.

Why?

Yuuuuuuup.

If you read it he says he trying to get it back to her.