A crowd of people gathered outside the courthouse in Oklahoma, in June 1957, to witness the burial of an unusual time capsule : a brand-new gold-and-white Plymouth Belvedere car. The city leaders explained :"In exactly 50 years time ,this car will be unearthed to show the world who we were and how we lived in Tulsa in 1957.
The automobile contained a flag, a city phone directory, a case of beer , an unpaid parking ticket , and the contents of a woman's purse:bobby pins , a ladies' powder compact a plastic rain cap.several combs , a tube of lipstick a pack of gum , a wad of &2.753 in bills and a bottle of tranquilizers. Five gallons of gas were also included,in case the combustion engine became obsolete by 2007 and no fuel was available