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Voices from the past predicting the present

I remember putting together a time capsule in grade 5 at Ecole St. Paul in Saskatoon … to be opened in The Year 2000 … so far away from quaint, backwards 1986. I don’t remember what my contribution was to the time capsule. It may have been something pop culture related … I think I was reading a lot back then. I wasn’t into music (my tape collection consisted of Dire Straits, Masters of Metal IV, and Alabama Greatest Hits … you could tell I was considering my options), video games hadn’t really taken hold of me yet. GI Joe maybe? I wasn’t present for the opening of the time capsule, so I guess I’ll never know. I’ll bet everyone wondered where that weird, pudgy Fullerton kid ended up, and what he was thinking when he contributed that incredibly bizarre item to the time capsule.

We move into our new sod-less house in a week and a half … I’m thinking that we should bury a time capsule in the back yard, to be opened some time in the Distant Future. Or maybe one time capsule per year. Maybe one a month. I don’t know.

I’m sad I didn’t have more forethought when I was 5 or 6, to bury a time capsule somewhere in the Ottawa area, maybe containing my three favourite things at the time. That would be a really cool insight into my young mind. How could I have been so short-sighted?

What triggered these thoughts of past, present and future? A letter written in 1956 by Walt Disney, predicting the face of entertainment in 2006.

Share your time travel stories in comments! Or if you don’t have a time travel story (if so, how boring are you?!?), share your time capsule story.

June 14, 2006 - 11:18 pm

Gary - Well at least Walt got a couple of things right, like the outlaw of war. Oh, wait….

June 15, 2006 - 8:21 am

Kris - My sister had a “time capsule” birthday when she was in Grade 8, her first year of high school. She had 10 or so of her little friends over and they all put in things that were important to them in little individual bundles. Then, my Dad set up a video camera and each of them left their future selves a video message. I believe the group of them may have also performed a dance or something equally embarassing.

When they graduated, the group of girls (who had miraculously remained friends over the years) got together and Dad dug the time capsue out of the darkest corner of our basement (we moved during that time…would have sucked to have had to knock on the door of our old house asking to dig up a small section of the backyard) and they opened it and watched the video tape. It was HILARIOUS. I was in it too…in all my Grade 10 coolness. It’s a wonderful idea.

June 15, 2006 - 12:05 pm

Shannen - I once tried to organize a family time-capsule, but they all made fun of me.

Mean. All of them.  😉

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