a 75 Vega and a blue Kawasaki motorcycle were in the 50 year old time capsule, along with 4,998 other items. Yes, even in a dry time capsule, the Vega rusted! HA!
The Vega emerged on with an engine warranty for the first 60,000 miles, and is hoped to be running for the 4th of July parade!
While a plaque on the World’s Largest Time Capsule instructed the time vault to be opened on July 4, 2025, the process was started early to ensure the public could view the capsule for the Fourth of July.
The 45 ton time capsule was the brain child of Harold Davisson, a Seward furniture store owner, in his store's yard, to preserve memories of that time for his friends and family.. At 20-by-8-by-60 feet and weighing around 45 tons, it earned recognition from the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest time capsule.
In 1983, after the title was snatched, Davisson responded by building a second time capsule on top in the shape of a pyramid. Inside that capsule, sealed in 1985, was a 1975 Toyota Corolla. His efforts paid off as he reclaimed the title which is now carried in perpetuity since Guinness retired the classification.
the tires are hold air, the car was put up off the floor of the capsule on blocks of wood designed by GM at all 4 wheels. Smart!
is an incredibly cool article to read, it's well written from that point of view of WHAT a time capsule is supposed to do, and that's something about hopes, about a thing - time capsules - that we rarely see opened in the lifetime of the people that added to it.
Plus, the guy who made this, and his daughter, were instrumental in it's carrying out it's mission, and now the daughter must choose if she'll put a new 50 year time capsule in it's place after this summer.
Seriously, that's explained in the article as a very heavy duty responsibility in the long term life of a person. Very intriguing.
After the contents have been distributed, Harold Davisson’s goal was for the crypt to be refilled for another 50 years. As the sole owner of the time capsule, and the only family member living in Nebraska, it’s up to Johnson to decide, and she doesn’t have plans to repeat the process.
“I have one granddaughter. She is 4 and a half. I would not obligate her to what I’ve experienced,” Johnson said.
Traci Prochaska hopes this isn’t the end of the time capsule legacy in Seward.
“It’s amazing how technology and things like cars have changed over 50 years,” Traci Prochaska said. “I’m sure back then people probably imagined flying cars by the year 2025, which hasn’t actually happened yet. It would be cool if they had a plan to create another time capsule with new stuff so people could witness it again in 50 years.”
Skip to minute 26 of this video for the capsule to be the story, up to that, it's another story for the podcaster
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064751614264 for the facebook page of the time capsule!
in the pyramid, on top of the time capsule, a Toyota Corolla was placed, with some other stuff... it didn't survive as well as the Vega:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=954353243399721&set=a.551234420378274