Since this is a big year for opening time capsules, I was just wondering if anyone has put together a Web site which lists some good ones.
I don’t know about opening time capsules but last year I saw a product that was so ludicrous I wish I had thought of it myself: a plastic pipe with end caps printed a commemorative Y2K date. The kicker was the date inscription, 01-01-00, not Y2K compliant.
Heard on public radio this morning about a class reunion from '75 that went to open their time capsule. They searched and searched, used metal detectors and all manner of surveying equipment, but couldn’t find it. Then somebody remembered that they’d put some pot and a bottle of champagne in it, and it started to make sense why it wasn’t there anymore . . .
Yeah, I heard that one yesterday too. But what got me going on this was that I vaguely remember my 1969 6th grade class
burying a time capsule, but when I called the school yesterday, no one really knew about it. The principal did
say she’d heard something. I’m sure there was no pot or champagne in it; couldn’t help being curious though.
Interesting topic. I read a few years back that America is “time capsule happy”-more time capsules are buried in the USA, than in any other country on earth (I wonder what that says about our national psyche)!At any rate, it seems that most of the sites have been long-forgotten! I heard that even the 1939 World’s Fair in NYC, they don’t even know where that time capsule is buried! (Can any NYC SD’rs please confirm).
I guess I don’t understand the need for time capsules-our descendants certainly won’t need to look at moldy old newspapers, lousy rock albums, or bikini swimsuits.
Finally, Y2000 should be a banner year for burying these things-maybe there is a website for these things?
Our town will be digging up the time capsule buried in 1967 (the 300th birthday of the town) tomorrow afternoon, and opening it up Saturday. It was apparently an army surplus ammuniton box buried inside a concrete burial vault, who knows what condition the stuff inside is going to be in.
Some time in October, the town is going to bury another capsule, to be opened in 2017 (the town’s 350th birthday). They’re selling something like 200 mini-capsules to put in the main one, so individuals can bury their own stuff.
More info here: http://members.aol.com/SwanPrPlay/timecapsule.html