[Welsh Rabbit]

Other buried items include the contents of a woman's purse: 14 bobby pins, a lipstick, a pack of gum, tissues, a pack of cigarettes and matches and $2.43.

Oh thanks, people of 1957... For leaving us a bunch of useless crap.

(Just kidding, I was loosely paraphrasing an Onion article about a time capsule)

[MikeD]

1957 time capsule, and no Stratocaster? Man, what a waste... To top it off, they left a Plymouth instead of a Chevy!

[Rte66]

They didn't ask me, since I was just a little kid--but if they were putting in useless crap, the very best would've been all the freebie goodies collected by attendees at the IPE at the Tulsa Fairgrounds.

Tulseytown was the "Oil Capital of the World" and the International Petroleum Exposition at the Tulsa Fairgrounds was like Mardi Gras. It went on for 10 days and everyone got out of school to go to it. Attendance was like 400,000 and oilies came from all over the world, like the OTC in Houston now.

They had parties, banquets, dances, teas, receptions, baseball games, golf tournaments, carnival rides, and drilling rigs! The advertising novelty people outdid themselves, too. I would bring home bags and bags of useless crap--some of it useful, too. Kids need desk paperweights! Yardsticks, measuring tapes, magnifying glasses, lighters, fishing gear, shot glasses, binoculars, you name it.

Now, THAT's what I would've put in a 1957 time capsule in Tulsa, OK! "The year Bill Skelly died."