Time Capsules

The concrete rectangles in front of Shields

Time Capsules are fun. Intro here.

What most students lovingly refer to as 'time capsules' is what's hidden in their dorm room, behind the wall plates for the phones in almost all of the dorms. These aren't actual capsules to be opened at some date, but usually assorted memorabilia and objects people pass on to future students. Movie stubs, on campus concert tickets, condoms, etc. One of the most common items left are pictures and occasionally papers with trivia and events written out (some sort of documentation. It's fun as a freshman in the dorms to pry off the phone jack plate and poke around in the wall and see what's hidden. It also is a bit of a test - what did you leave behind for the following year? It can be a fun end of the year competition.

There are also time capsules along the outside of Shields Library, numbered by graduating class. These are the more conventional sort, meant to be opened at some future date.

Where else in town are there time capsules, and what year are they supposed to be opened in?

Pack 111 Millennium Capsule

There is a capsule buried at Davis Community Church. It was placed there by Boy Scout Pack 111 on January 6^th, 2000 and is to be opened on January 6^th, 2025.

Emerson Junior High Capsule

When Emerson Junior High School was being built, a time capsule was placed, to be opened after 50 years in 2029.

2007-06-17 17:35:07   Are you referring to the concrete rectangles with the brass numbers in them? —JasonAller

Yeah. —PhilipNeustrom

If those are time capsules, when are they supposed to be opened, and wouldn't the first of them have already been opened? —JasonAller

I don't know the answer to either. I'd just heard that they were capsules. —PhilipNeustrom

2007-06-17 18:26:07   We had a Time Crapsule (yes, spelling intended) burying party at the 3rd house in from Poleline and Covell in about 2001 or so. In the front yard near the tree, about 2 feet down, lies a metal tin container with various meaningless crap we all brought over to bury in the Time Crapsule. This was Geoff Greene's house. Geoff taught bike welding at the Experimental College, and worked at Ken's Bike and Ski. I still see some of his recumbent schwinn bike creations riding around town. Oh, the time for unburying? 2030. Or thereabouts.—JeffShaw

• If it hasn't rusted by then... :) KJM

2007-06-17 22:48:11   There are some sort of markers along Howard Way in front of each tree, but I'm not sure if they're capsules or not. They just have a year on each in brass, much like the markers next to Shields. —EliseKane

2007-06-17 22:52:37   Just noting, there should be a time capsule at some corner stones, wherever the Masons performed one of their ceremonies anyway. —DavidPoole

Actually, placing a time capsule beneath a cornerstone would be unusual for the Masons. The cornerstones have stuff etched in them and that's about it. —WilliamLewis

2007-06-18 09:50:14   Behind a "breakaway" panel in a cupboard, I once found a little metal cylinder that from the looks of it, was a grinder for shredding kitchen herbs... but that sure wasn't oregano in it!

There is the ever-popular almost-used-up cleaners you can leave under the sink when you move out of places... if that counts. —KarlMogel