City officials stepped back in time Tuesday afternoon as a 64-year-old time capsule was opened outside the Pershing Auditorium. Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, Urban Development Director Dan Marvin and Anna Holley with History Nebraska opened the capsule, which was buried in 1959, the year of the city’s centennial celebration.
The capsule was intended to be opened in 2059, but efforts are underway to demolish the auditorium and city officials had to reveal the contents more than three decades earlier than planned.
Inside the four-foot deep rubber incased capsule was a bible, a letter to the future mayor from the mayor in 1959, Martin Bennett, newspapers, promotional items from local businesses and a “Gooch’s Best scrapbook.
Holley says the items pulled out of the ground will be taken to History Nebraska and inventoried. After that is completed the public will be able to go to the museum to see the contents.
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