Harold Keith Davisson’s time capsule in Seward, Nebraska, USA
It is located in Nebraska, protected by a huge cement pyramid, and contains more than 5,000 objects from the 1970s – including a car of the time. It is the largest capsule of the time in the world, and will be opened at the beginning of July.
Em 1975, Harold Keith Davissonresident in Seward, Nebraska, and former owner of a local store, built a huge safe, with 45 tons, on lawn in front of your establishment.
“My father I wanted the grandchildren to know as was your life in 1975, ”explains Davisson’s daughter, Trish Johnson. “He was convinced that they wouldn’t remember him.”
From this point of view, the effort of the eccentric merchant was quite successful, says the.
Instead of building a capsule of any time, Davisson created what was at the time the Largest Time Capsule in the World – Title that the Guinness record book attributed to him in 1977.
Shortly thereafter, the University of Oglethorpe in Atlanta, Georgia argued that its “sealed in May 1940 was larger. Davisson stressed that the “crypt” It was not a true time capsulebut in reality just a room at a university.
Guinness reacted at the time completely eliminating the category of “largest time capsule”, but Davisson resolved the dispute in its own way: built a great concrete pyramid on the capsule Original, with even more objects inside.
Guinness has returned to the, which is currently detained by the Millennium Vaultbuilt in March 2000 in Guilford, the United Kingdom; But Davisson’s structure, including the concrete pyramid, is the largest time capsule in the world.
On the day July 4 this year50 years after its construction, Davisson’s time capsule will finally be opened.
The monumental vault contains More than 5,000 objects of the timeincluding a bikini, a male bath with floral pattern, Um Chevrolet Vega – which was completely new – and a motorcycle.
Although the initial time capsule has kept closed during these 50 years, the external pyramid was opened during a “general essay” Last year, in preparation for the final revelation of Davisson’s safe content.
After six hours trying to break the concrete, a team of inhabitants in the city found Several handwritten lettersmurals painted inside by local artists and a second car – a Toyota Corolla with a slightly deteriorated look.
We will not know all the treasures that await us in the inner safe until it is opened at the beginning of next month, but the daughter ensures that the rumors that her father simply filled him with Objects that could not sell in your store They are not true.
Davisson passed away in 1999, a quarter of a century before the expected opening date of his safe, but Your family continued to keep the time capsule – And your business, initially a chickens incubator, which has become a used furniture resale market.
Before he died, Davisson warned his daughter that There is not enough space To open the capsule from the interior of the pyramid, and that some sections of the safe may be required to be able to access the Chevrolet Vega, the motorcycle – and the remembrance treasure of the 1970s kept inside.
