A 50 Year Time Capsule Is Opened in Iowa & Shows Iowa History
50 Years ago post office employess in Iowa had the presence of mind to make a time capsule. I feel like we don't do things like this enough anymore. Not sure why but we should start again. This is really neat.
Inside the capsule were:
- A Des Moines Register edition from Oct. 15, 1968
- An edition of the Better Homes and Gardens magazine with a letter from the former president of Meredith Corporation
- An edition of The Washington Post, the Iowa Bystander, the Highland Park News and other newspapers
- A $2 bill and a half-dollar coin
- News clippings
- Information on Des Moines, which had a population of around 268,000 and about 350 factories in 1968
- Maps of Iowa
- Pictures and clippings of the Veterans Administration Center from 1968
- Post Office publications, including one on mail fraud
- A sheet of half-cent stamps
Des Moines Register Reports: Once Griswold and Droz pried the lid off the copper tube, they found tightly rolled papers.
"Did we really have half-cent stamps?" Griswold asked. "That's really cool."
The time capsule allows central Iowans a chance to reflect on the past, but also imagine the technology of the future, Griswold said.
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