Comments on: Time Capsules

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:04:05 +0000

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.

By: eamwkc

eamwkc — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:46:57 +0000

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.

By: paperback writer

paperback writer — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:04:31 +0000

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.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:15:10 +0000

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!

By: Jennie McAlistar

Jennie McAlistar — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:32:02 +0000

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.

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:17:37 +0000

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.