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Time Capsules
by Becky - June 11, 2007 - 2:51 PM

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We’re nearing the 50th anniversary of the interment of a certain famous ‘57 Plymouth. The car is the piece de résistance of a time capsule created by Tulsa residents and lowered into a well on the courthouse lawn. The car, which also contains “fourteen bobby pins, a ladies’ compact plastic rain cap, several combs, a tube of lipstick, a pack of gum, a wad of Kleenex, $2.73 in bills and coins, a pack of cigarettes with matches, an unpaid parking ticket, and a bottle of tranquilizers,” will be gifted to the person–or the descendant–who, in 1957, most correctly extrapolated the 2007 population of Tulsa. Watch the exhumation live on June 15th. How fun to win after a fifty year wait! I’ve never been so good at time capsules–I put one together in an old Orange Sherbet container when I was eight (contents: notebook w/extensive libelous content, subpar Brownie badges torn from my sash, and some Gummi Peaches), but when I tried to lift it from its shallow grave near some top soil, I couldn’t find it. Of course, I was convinced a second grade mole had confiscated it, and I still don’t have proof otherwise. Has anyone ever had a successful (and/or meaningful) time capsule experience?

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  1. i live in tulsa; it will be kind of cool to see it. god, its just too bad my grandparents happened to live in sand springs during this instead of tulsa…i could use a new-old plymouth. its sealed in concrete though, rihgt? so theres a chance that when they pull it out, itll just be a huge pile of rust.

    posted by sarah on 6-11-2007 at 5:17 pm

  2. When I was eight and my brother ten our father built a wooden mantle for our fireplace. Before we installed it we filled it with a local newspaper, a family photograph (labelled, of course), one of my journals, some coins, and probably some other things that have been forgotten over the years. Every time our mother wants to redecorate the room that fireplace is in, the mantle is off limits.

    posted by Jennie McAlistar on 6-11-2007 at 7:32 pm

  3. When I was 7 my neigbors made a time capsule asked all the children to bring soemthing so I borught a box of crayons and a McDonald’s happy meal toy. I have no idea where they buried it but, I do believe that wherever it is it’s underneath a house!

    posted by Rachel on 6-11-2007 at 10:15 pm

  4. I tried to bury a time capsule…but immediately forgot where I buried it. So, I wrote a letter to myself instead, listed what I would have put in it and immediately lost it too. I’m hoping that it’s just stuck in an old journal.

    posted by paperback writer on 6-12-2007 at 7:04 am

  5. In the late summer of 2001 I was working on a master-bedroom remodel of the house we were living in at the time.

    When the September 11 attacks happened, I saved the full edition of that day’s newspaper in a plastic grocery sack and put it between the wall studs behind the drywall as I was finishing the room.

    Who knows what will happen in the years before someone else decides to remodel the room, but when they do they’ll get a glimps of the world in 2001 and what we were collectively going through at the time.

    posted by eamwkc on 6-12-2007 at 9:46 am

  6. I doubt there are many blue-collar Joes on this site who can confirm this, but while working construction during high school, we found all sorts of things in old masonry walls. Apparently, old-school brick layers often droppped coins and such down double-layer chimneys and such. It’s not uncommon to find cool old graffiti on steel frame buildings, either.

    posted by Andrew on 6-13-2007 at 1:04 am

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