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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Cool Timecapsule


I read that an interesting time capsule is slated to be unearthed very soon in Oklahoma City.
The time capsule is a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that was entombed in 1957 (in pristine/new condition) along with some other documents, including contest entries in which participants guessed the population of Oklahoma City in 2007! The closest entry would win the entombed Belvedere, assuming they were still around!!

Well, as city representatives now prepare to unseal the Belvedere from its 1957 time capsule, many local residents are speculating about the results of the contest- will the "winner" come forward? Will anyone related to the time capsule project come forward? Thus far, despite ads in the local Oklahoma City paper, no one involved in the project back in 1957 has come forward.

It just may be that the only one to come forward from that time capsule adventure may be the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere. But, will it be intact or rusted away form it's prior land-yacht glory?

Personally, I hope I see a follow-up to that story to find out what sort of figures people submitted as 2007 population guesses!