Time Capsules

RedFox said:
Were those cars buried in boxes or put straight into the ground with dirt inside or not?

RIT had a time capsule from when the campus was new but they opened it up and found that the stuff had rotted. :( Maybe there's a new one, I forget. It may be by the ramp in between the old bookstore and the tiger.

I also found accidental time capsules in the woods at my parents' like an empty bottle of laundry soap or blench and a soda bottle from the summer of 1996. Near my uncle's garage, I found a container that had rotten green meat inside. :barf: My sister said it looked like a frog.
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It reminded me that few time capsules were used with the steel lunch boxes back in '50s so we should assume that those ones must be rotten already. too bad lol
 
sablescort said:
The Prowler is in an above-ground vault. So the Prowler will fare much better than the '57 Belvedere. Also I heard Tulsa did even put a Harley in another time capsule a few months after they dug out the Belvedere.

Last I heard the '57 Plymouth is now in New Jersey having preservation work done to it. It's too rusty to do an frame-off restoration. The guy who won the car almost 30 years after he died-his sisters now have possession of the car.

Perhaps I should introduce y'all to a few time capsules I know of:

1)The Time Capsule Expo '70 was actually TWO identicial time capsules buried on top of each other. The top capsule is unearthed, checked and buried every 100 years. The bottom capsule will be opened 5,000 years later.

Time Capsule Expo '70 | History | About Panasonic | Panasonic Global

2) The Crypt of Civilization at Atlanta's Oglethorpe University. It was sealed in 1940. The Crypt was built out of an old swimming pool inside one of the college buildings. That capsule will be opened in AD 8113.

Oglethorpe University : About Us : Crypt Of Civilization

3) The 1939 and 1964 New York's World Fairs featured time capsules sponsored by Westinghouse. They're buried at the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens.

Westinghouse Time Capsules - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

4) The Voyager Golden Record is a time capsule attached to a Voyager spacecraft out in space. Can you imagine aliens finding the Voyager and the Golden Record?! Its the most far-out time capsule man ever made.

Voyager Golden Record | Planet Earth

Take a look at the time capsule society that is responsibe for keeping track of time capsules around the world. They're the keepers of the Crypt of Civilization.

Oglethorpe University : About Us : Crypt Of Civilization : International Time Capsule Society
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Yes we did mentioned about the '57 Belvedere in my thread here

Thanks for the update on the '57 Belvedere, if you find source, for that.. that'd be great :thumb:
 
Yea, I buried my stuffs at my parent's house in the back yard. after parents deceased and they domolished the house down. It's possibility my stuffs still in very deep soils.

Till I looked the google map of my old house's land, they build new duplex apartment.

Also at my grandparent's farmhouse still intacts it's looks like an haunted house and abandoned stuffs as "storage".
 
I vaguely recall contributing a few stuff to the school time capsule back in 1995. It will be dug out when the school reaches its 50th anniversary, which will be in 2025.

ZOMG! I'll be ... :eek2: 40 YEARS OLD with 2.5 kids hanging off me!
 
my friend said that, 2011, will be our year to reveal the time capsule. I am so much curious what it is in because i forgot what did i put in. Damn.

this sunday is my reveal day to open up the time capsule at 'rents home. SO MUCH CURIOUS!! Aye, will take a photo.
 
Here's the spade, son. Time to bring 'em out to the light!

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Going to be exciting man. What did your parents say about this, if you have recently spoken to them?
 
i talked with them before i go to softball game. my pop said, "what did you do with my gardens and backyard?!" i told them, "its only time capsule that i buried in the backyard, pop. Can i dig it out on this weekend?" He said, "sunday then we can watch 49ers game". I was like sure then replied back, "All right, i'll be there after my softball tourney, cool? See ya on sunday, pop". After that we hung up and do our business.
 
Text him every 20 minutes to remind him of his time capsule.

I think I did one way back in 3rd grade which was 1993, and now its 2009, meh, we can wait til 2013 to crack it open. I forgot what I put in it though, but it might have been a magazine article or clipping of a picture.

I may do one with my DD this weekend and have her open it when she graduates from H.S. so she can look back and uncover all the memories.

I'm thinking a small tupperware box sealed with duct tape and placed inside a ziploc bag and placed in a metal container should suffice between now and then. May have her place a small stuffed animal, a mini-DVD of her at this age, some magazine clippings of iPods and Blu-Ray players, and a t-shirt. Think she would find it interesting as an 18 year old. We would need to mark the spot somehow so we won't forget where we buried it!
 
Problem = don't have his email or number - only have AIM, he never come online much nowdays.
 
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