The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 24, June 17, 2007, Article 30

LARGE-SCALE TULSA TIME CAPSULE: PLYMOUTH BELVEDERE BURIED IN 1957

Although non-numismatic, this item about an unusual time capsule
makes an interesting companion to Dick Johnson's piece on time
capsules last week.

"A good crowd gathered in front of the county courthouse that summer
day to witness the burial of an exceptionally large time capsule: a
new gold-and-white Plymouth Belvedere, containing a flag, a city
directory, a case of beer, an unpaid parking ticket and the contents
of a woman's purse, among other things.

"City dignitaries explained that exactly 50 years in the future, on
June 15, 2007, this fin-tailed hardtop would be unearthed to show
the world who we were and how we lived, in Tulsa, in 1957. Earle
Davenport of Memorial Park Cemetery had been kind enough to donate
a bronze marker to be set in the ground above the Plymouth, lest
we forget.

"The curious event, which twinned a commemoration of the 50th
anniversary of Oklahoma's statehood with a Plymouth promotion,
drew all sorts of people to Denver Avenue that day. Some thought
that burying a new car was dumb; others thought it sublime.

"If the Belvedere is in driving condition when it is unearthed on
Friday, its headlamps will flicker across a different Tulsa: a Tulsa
that can no longer claim to be the Oil Capital of the World, but a
Tulsa with a strong and diverse economy, and a population that has
grown by more than 100,000 over those 50 years, to about 390,000."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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