1958 time capsule unearthed in Emmetsburg

Members of the Sesquicentennial Committee dig up a time capsule on the court house square in Emmetsburg, buried during the centennial celebration 50 years ago. The capsule contained newspapers from every city in the county that had a paper at the time, a hat worn by the mayor during the 1958 celebration, Paperwork concerning the renaming of Medium Lake to Five Island Lake, promotional pins and bumper stickers from the Centennial celebration and more memorabelia. The opening of the time capsule was the first official event in the Sesquicentennial celebration, scheduled July 4-6 in Emmetsburg.The capsule was opened June 5th, with the unearthing ceremoney starting at 6 pm.

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[Fooblestheclown]

Very good...but you edit out the most important part....opening the box and taking the items out for the first time in half a century....

[ampdavolts]

what was the box made of?

how was it sealed?

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as a child of ten, in 1964, I made a "time capsule", fittingly, of a glass mayonnaise jar, filled with little boy trinkets such as baby teeth, a "joy buzzer", a golf ball center (bouncy!) and a school paper or two. The capsule probably no longer exits, or exists intact: the shrubbery has been long-since changed out. Besides, a stamped steel lid would have rusted through by now. I don't think I will ever unearth my past, not now, not intact.

[IDrugTheKids]

i made a time capsule to when i was a kid i pooped my pants and i didn't want anyone to know so i hid it in the back yard but now that i am all grown up i do my own washing so i can poop my pants anytime i want

[GooglFascists]

@TheInfotwins Breaking in their new set of false teeth.

[GooglFascists]

@curlyfry44 Hey nobody wanted to put anything good in there, because

they THOUGHT they'd all be dead and who cares if the grandkids get

anything?

You know, just like the attitude among old people in America today:

"Im Spending My Grandkids' Inheritance". Ha Ha friggin' HA. Are

they ever gonna have nice memories of YOU, cheapskate!

[GooglFascists]

It would have got quiet enough to hear a pin drop if they opened

that box and found a folded up skeleton in there.

The rock says 1858-1958. Why didn't you leave it alone until

2058? Just got impatient or something, like microwave time

capsule? Put it back and let your grandkids find it!

[blobby273]

they just couldn't wait could they when that was put there it should have been for hundreds of years not 50 most the people there would remember burying it.. there are older relics in my fathers shed .

[Darkfloyd73]

what a waste of time.... they could of put something more interesting in that time capsule. money from that era. clothing. time peices. lighters anything that would last along with the boring newpapers and old church crap. thing that people can look back and go... wow!! things were build better than they were now!! not like a shoebox mine or something crazy like that... just something to look back on and make people think for a while.

[curlyfry44]

Damn....what a lame time capsule...all newspapers, church bulletins, pens....they could have been more creative...but then again its a boring, republican, ultra conservative in-breeding town no one ever heard of.

[bwatt16]

i wish they wouldve found a "jart" in the time capsule and then someone smelled

[zestydude87]

Our 8th grade History teacher had us all make time capsules that he sealed and kept in his basement until 15 years later. It was kinda cool to open it and see the newspaper clippings and other things we had put in them.