The people who planted that time capsule would be disgusted to see what's happened to their city.

@newtrollaccount384

Ай бұрын

They're dead. It's not their city. 🪦

@joetrolo7076

Ай бұрын

@newtrollaccount384 Mr Brilliant, that's why it says "would be", not "are". But thanks for trying to participate!

@jamesc949

Ай бұрын

Yep, they probably burned the Bible and flag too.

@tula1433

Ай бұрын

@@joetrolo7076drag him down bootz yasss hunty

@JasonRitchie-mg7zw

Ай бұрын

​@@joetrolo7076Nice retort.

Detroit tore down a beautiful old building and now they've got an ugly parking lot...

@tommas2674

Ай бұрын

shame on them, people use to have smarts and class and the building reflected it, not developers putting up crap for grants from our overtaxed dollars, What will they do when NO food / ranch farms and forest left which are nourished by co2 expel o2 for us and then nourishment for us. What should be done is remove the regulations off our industries and mfg that sent them out, plus the policies that allowed china>>> to tariff the heck out of us, the left wants more, they think so corruptly, Reversing these thing would bring back the Good jobs, For Fellow Americans Growing home less, quality products, Security within and out our military NEEDS shoes to hats like We all do, a real and solid tax base, not loopholers, babbler jobbers usually off us... so the demolition Cost we the people OUR MONEY, and what they will put up! Bodies are not growth Stop importing We can make our own.

@bobroberts2371

Ай бұрын

The building had been empty, roof failed and bricks falling apart for over 20 years, why didn't you pay to save it when you had a chance? Perhaps you can find another building and save it?

@badboypezza15

Ай бұрын

🤣​@@bobroberts2371

@savage.4.24

Ай бұрын

Came to say they tore down the very building the history was about 🤷🤦

@georgina979

Ай бұрын

The plan is working.

If you were saving artifacts, you would have saved the whole building

@maestrovso

Ай бұрын

They demolished the big historic artifact and found the small one.

@Novusod

Ай бұрын

@@maestrovso The time capsule is full of trash. The building was the important relic.

@DROK278

Ай бұрын

@@Novusod Not really? If you were to make one today what would you put in it? Gold bars? Lmao they were both important pieces of history to them, I've seen how Detroit handles it's history today and they would not be impressed if they saw it, I'm not to impressed myself, I live right across the river in Windsor and seen the old building all slowly disappearing from its skyline. Detroit was a world class city that was talked about like Paris or Rome at one point, how far its fallen. (no offence, but its true, love Detroit still despite its flaws)

@StrangeScaryNewEngland

Ай бұрын

@@DROK278 Gold bars aren't a bad idea, you know. They would stand the test of time! Lol. Next time capsule they should engrave a story on a gold bar and shove it in a cornerstone somewhere.

@DROK278

29 күн бұрын

@@StrangeScaryNewEngland Lol if we could "trust" people more to do what's right first! Honestly it's not a bad idea, but if I'm not mistaken they usually put a gold coin into any serious time capsule for exactly that reason, love to know if the contractors that "turned it over" actually kept the coin from this one?

beware of a singing frog, it wont make you rich.

@danielthrasher7052

Ай бұрын

You must be old school 🤠

@jasonterrell847

Ай бұрын

You beat me to it. I was coming to coming comments to talk about that frog.

@timhinchcliffe5372

Ай бұрын

I thought that too... 😁

@johndavid8815

Ай бұрын

Michigan J. Frog is his name 😊

@MrFrog_

Ай бұрын

No.

Imagine if the people from 1927 could see Detroit today. They were living high just 2 years before The Great Depression

@Novusod

Ай бұрын

The 1970s were worse than the great depression for Detroit. That is when the decay set in. It has gotten worse every year since then.

@strawberryme08

27 күн бұрын

What do you mean “if” they totally can see it from the other side haha

@johnpierce1470

27 күн бұрын

Womp womp

@Michorida

27 күн бұрын

Detroit was the wealthiest city in the USA in 1950

@youropionmattersnot

25 күн бұрын

​@@MichoridaAnd 15 years later something happened.

I wonder what they would put in a time capsule today: guns, hypodermic needles, crack…

@joestocking

Ай бұрын

Dumpy Hat

@BigLisaFan

Ай бұрын

George Floyd I can’t breathe anti-arrest manual.

@newtrollaccount384

Ай бұрын

What would your wife put in a time capsule? She can't pack regret, bitterness, disappointment and misery. What else does she have?

@eddyfitzgerald1978

Ай бұрын

A McDonald's quarter pounder, it would still look alright to eat after nearly a hundred years

@tula1433

Ай бұрын

A BLM sticker oh wait they are bankrupt from buying mansions in white neighborhoods lol

Every single person that took the time to bury that time capsule is rolling in their graves at current state that Detroit is in. Had they known they likely would not have bothered putting it in. Since a time capsule represents hope for the future.

@timhinchcliffe5372

Ай бұрын

Planet of the Apes comes to my mind.

@nachc6459

Ай бұрын

Current state of the US

@valestivale4711

29 күн бұрын

A time capsule just represents a look back at a moment in time. Not hope. Dont blame anyone but the detroit automotive industry

@DeloreanJack

29 күн бұрын

A time capsule literally represents hope for the future.

@timhinchcliffe5372

29 күн бұрын

@@valestivale4711 😂 all the White people left to go to the suburbs when the first Black Democrat Mayor was elected and enacted what is now known as _"defund the police"_ measures because too many Black people were running into trouble. But yes, the _"politically correct"_ narrative taught by Marxist teachers is that the Auto Industry declining is to blame (could _only_ be the fault of Capitalism). And because of the population move to the suburbs, _"racist highways"_ were built to accommodate the traffic of those commuting to the, _apparently,_ "declining Auto Industry". I guess the new woke catchphrase will be White people are "crime-phobic".

They clearly aren't well trained at handling archaeological finds.

"oh look at that" tosses the flag aside.

@davidhennen7045

26 күн бұрын

Yet the Antichrist publicly humped the flag and Repukes and fake-christians cheered. 😎😎😎😎🤬🤬

@chadjohnson13

25 күн бұрын

😂

@AE1OU

22 күн бұрын

Well yea, it's pretty much garbage now with how deteriorated it was 🤣

The contents were obviously very fragile and that guy was peeling apart pages like they were new. He even destroyed the metal box. That's not preservation.

@arizonaarmadillo5829

Ай бұрын

It looks like they bit into the box with a backhoe.

@DROK278

Ай бұрын

Your right its not preservation because like everything else Detroit has become today its a sad thing to watch happen, Detroit used to be a world class city...

@ironhell813

Ай бұрын

Microcosm of America, a dead country…

@LordRayken

Ай бұрын

To be fair the box doesn't really need preservation

@arizonaarmadillo5829

Ай бұрын

@@LordRayken Liar liar pants on fire. If the box isn't preserved (i.e. intact) the contents won't be preserved. Put on your thinking cap, cecil.

Whoever loaded the capsule in the first place did a good job...

I like that they placed the newspaper clip about the time capsule in the time capsule!

@sforza209

27 күн бұрын

That’s very meta.

First let’s talk about how Detroit has a “demolition department”!

@seeharvester

Ай бұрын

That knows nothing about a "time capsule". "Oh, we found a box."

@huntncover

29 күн бұрын

The demolition department is it's citizens .

Funniest time capsule EVER was the Mormon one where they poured wet concrete on the contents and rotted them. Genius move, Brigham.

@ThatOpalGuy

Ай бұрын

It represented it perfectly then

@sforza209

27 күн бұрын

@@ThatOpalGuylol nice one! Rotten to the core.

1920s isn't that long ago. Those printed items would be in better shape if left on library or my toilet shelves.

@johnp139

Ай бұрын

Right, poor packaging of the documents.

@twentyfourbentley159

Ай бұрын

😂

@monroe7403

Ай бұрын

Well the only reason the box was opened is because the building was torn down. And they tried their best to seal it up, being buried for 100 years is rough on things. Kinda loses it's mystique if a time capsule is just sitting in a room for 100 years. Also could get lost or stolen.

@sforza209

27 күн бұрын

⁠@@monroe7403you must not understand. They should have done a better job at sealing the “time capsule”. It’s not a time capsule if it can’t handle the time.

@bankz724

26 күн бұрын

@@monroe7403I think it looses mystique sitting in the ground, think about all the destroyed stuff they can’t read because it wasn’t stored properly. Atleast in an attic it woulda stayed looking nice. Would the declaration of independence be cooler if it was put under ground? Or is it cooler that we have paper hundreds of years ago that look nice and completely readable?

I found one behind the corner stone of a church we were remodeling in Baltimore in 1976. It contained pictures, documents and the history of the church from when it was first built in 1802. The church was remodeled in 1890 and that was when everything was put in the metal box that was placed behind the "new" corner stone where I found it. I gave it to the Reverend and the church updated everything with newer pictures (including me), history and such and placed it behind the new corner stone that we put in. From 1802 to 1890 the people attending the church were white. There was only Caucasian people in those pictures. There were no black people in any pictures, yet when I was there it was a black neighborhood with black people attending the church. Sometime between 1890 and 1976 the neighborhood changed from white to all black!

@BurnaBwoi

Ай бұрын

Great migration

@tommas2674

Ай бұрын

factories / mfg must have left from the Regulations put on them To china...

@KirkLee1983

Ай бұрын

Shame as a Baltimore man I hate it

@arizonaarmadillo5829

Ай бұрын

The neighborhood and church are way better now, right? (yes, I'm being sarcastic)

@seeharvester

Ай бұрын

Maybe, just maybe, that will give you an idea as to what has destro..................

Time capsules are fantastic!

WOW!! What an awesome day to visit the museum!! Those visitors will never forget ❤

You know they tossed the box for valuables before they turned it in.

That was a great looking building. They should have restored it. Now they have...an empty lot.

@ironhell813

Ай бұрын

Soon America will be one.

@mmayer1558

27 күн бұрын

​@@ironhell813 yes soon America will be "a great looking building". Ahh your hope inspires me in this dry desert of despair. It is like water on the parched lips of pessimism

@ironhell813

27 күн бұрын

I know right? The world will marvel at the vast open spaces… just like in the colonial days… about the last time America was any good.

I know they didn't have plastic back then, but you'd think they would have used a 1920s equivalent to better preserve the capsule's contents.

@user-mw8to4ng9i

Ай бұрын

They did, it’s called copper, and that’s what is was made of

@eMemoryCard

Ай бұрын

There’s documents 1,000 years old that are in better condition. Their copper creator didn’t cut it.

@SenileOtaku

Ай бұрын

@@eMemoryCard Well yes, but those 1000 year old documents were written on a much higher quality parchment. Your typical newspaper of then (and even now) is printed on a lower-grade acidic paper, and degrades in a fraction of that time.

@fvckingtest

Ай бұрын

The building was left delapidated and leaky for many years, Im sure the people placing it believed it would survive until it's eventual rennovation and the contents would be better preserved, but yet there's been other examples of artifacts being even worse off because of water entering the vault where they were stored.

@DavidLS1

Ай бұрын

@@fvckingtest Maybe if they had stored less paper and more solid artifacts.

Protectors of history,then why would you allow a beautiful old building to be torn down in the first place.

@nachobroryan8824

27 күн бұрын

It was falling apart and they didn't want to spend $20 million restoring it.

@tansman1

24 күн бұрын

It takes a lot of money to restore an old building for use. Also, you can't just let it sit vacant and unused because that in itself causes a whole lot of other safety issues.

@jimedge8301

23 күн бұрын

@@tansman1 obviously you have no idea about historical societies,they receive funding from governments and different organizations. Yet in this case they did nothing to protect this historical building.

That is so sad that they would demolish the bulding and then parade around the time capsule like the heart of a vanquished enemy. But hey, at least it's still the nicest building in Detroit.

@mikemiller659

Ай бұрын

Moved ALL manufacturing to foreign countries...mexico gets the jobs America gets the un employable

We need to rethink time capsules. Put them inside the building in a vault to protect them from the elements and corrosive materials like cement or water.

@DavidLS1

Ай бұрын

Today, we have plastic to protect their contents. Although you'd think they could have used some 1920s equivalent when they were packing this one.

@throughthoroughthought8064

29 күн бұрын

@@DavidLS1 I wouldn't put all my stock in plastic for the next 100 years. If one bacterium evolves to eat that stuff, there will be no hope for any plastic on Earth.

@DavidLS1

29 күн бұрын

@@throughthoroughthought8064 I guess we'd have to go back to glass bottles...but I doubt that will happen in our lifetimes. After that, it will be somebody else's problem.

@throughthoroughthought8064

29 күн бұрын

@@DavidLS1 You could nest the plastic container in a glass container. People from the future will be so excited by the "real plastic" from back-then.

@DavidLS1

29 күн бұрын

@@throughthoroughthought8064 People from the future will have replicators (Star Trek ones, not Stargate ones).

mention anything about what the future would hold if the wrong people ever got elected

Too bad someone didn't know about the time capsule sooner, so the contents might have been found in better shape. I wonder how many years the building had been empty and abandoned.

@rebeccapaul6455

Ай бұрын

Decades, they said.

The box was a artefact but he didn’t think about that 😂

Reminds me of that Plymouth Fury that got put in a time capsule

It’s ironic because if they really cared they would have saved that beautiful ymca

@evilsharkey8954

27 күн бұрын

It would have cost a lot of money to restore, and Detroit doesn’t have a lot of that.

Where is the coin there's always gold coin demolition crew didn't turn that over

@evilsharkey8954

27 күн бұрын

Not always.

How did it get so damaged? It's sad that they had to destroy that building to find it.

@gabecollins5585

28 күн бұрын

They were probably digging and hit it with the excavator and then they found it

they handed it over after they took the valuables😂😂😂

Now thats very cool.

Love these stories about opening time capsules.

As an archivist, I got annoyed seeing him handle that delicate paper the way he did and with cotton white gloves... that is a big no no nowadays. It is recommended to use clean dry hands when handling documents like this as the cotton can dull the sense of touch, which can cause you to not have a good idea of the fragility, leading to snagging the fragile documents and causing to more damage.

My dad is older than that time capsule, still very cool. Sad the building didn't last 100 years.

The old museum layout was so much better. The only place original is the lower level the main floor used to have all kinds of artifacts from the 19th century. I'm surprised they haven't changed the lower level to a sports or Motown theme.

Bro just starts destroying everything 😂

I have yet to see a time capsule opened that isn't heavily damaged

It’s hard to believe that nobody knew that was there

@lutomson3496

Ай бұрын

Only the idiot demolition director didn't she should be fired

@rebeccapaul6455

Ай бұрын

The reporter said social media posts said to look in the cornerstone for a time capsule....a few people did know that it was there.

@huntncover

29 күн бұрын

They were too busy in the throes of corruption , sports , and entertainment .

@KCCardCo

26 күн бұрын

@@huntncover Even the historical museum puts sports and entertainment ahead of actual history.

The Roaring 20's They Had No Idea the Great Depression was about to happen.

@huntncover

29 күн бұрын

The same can be said about these " Roaring 20's " .

You wouls think they would xray scan it with ai to try and document what they can in original state before making everything crumble as they separate it.

@FollowMeOnTwitch

Ай бұрын

my thoughts exactly vis a vis scrolls of Herculaneum

@SeniorMoostacho

Ай бұрын

LOL. Your a moron. AI .. artificial intelligence is nothing but a computer program, run by a person or group. Hahaha. Recent college grad , sorry, college participator. 😂😂😂

@shinobi3673

Ай бұрын

DEI scientists!@@RomulusScipioAurelius

@shinobi3673

Ай бұрын

Very lazy!

@DROK278

Ай бұрын

Looks like the same level of quality the city has received for damn near 30 years as well, just another day in Detroit the place were we erase your dreams and pride. Sad

Weird to think it was buried only 50 years before I was born

Too cool!!

Work crew had already looked inside to make sure no 💰 😂

If they’d known what Detroit would become, they would have buried themselves in there.

So many time capsules fall victims to water . Even back in 1986 , our grade school buried a metal time capsule that was to be opened in 2000, sadly, water seeped in and it was a loss.

This is awesome!

Thats amazing history...

Hard to believe Detroit was once America's sixth largest city

If you mad at outsiders (Chineses and hindis) destroying an old building and pretty much the city, just imagine the rage some others feel when they destroy beautiful forests killing animals ( deers, owls, hawks, bears etc) and trees just to build gas stations, little tiny houses or apartment complex and rent them ( not for sale or to own) in higher prices.

Wow. They handled the box and everything so ......professionally 😂

I hope they're able to preserve this for prosperity

Just imagine how many ended up in landfills.

100 years in the USA=archaeology 😂

Did it have any COMMON SENSE in it?

Kewl find to share!

I gotta say that, for a mere 100 years old, those documents were in extremely bad condition. Were they in a fire?

@evilsharkey8954

27 күн бұрын

Looks like moisture damage. The time capsule was probably poorly sealed

Obviously before the plastic zip lock bag was available.

Same these great character buildings are gone. It's to bad some could not be in cooperated . But some buildings become not safe.

Wow, neat! Demolition crews and builders DO find interesting historical relics.

What we’ve learned here: They didn’t have much of a way to air lock time capsule in 1926.

Time capsules are boring, its always a let down, like Capone's vault lol

No dancing frog, just Jimmy Hoffa.

@Tangobutton

Ай бұрын

Jimmy Hoffa is buried in the cement below the Michigan Humane Society in Detroit. My prediction.

That’s Amazing

wowwe jeez and golly jankers

They should put mc donalds junk foods, it will look the same after 100 years.

Amazing

Most of the furniture in my house is older than that.

If there's one thing I've learned from all these time capsules they're finding is time capsules aren't secure at all

Awesome!

Ok that was really cool.

The time capsule in the new building will include a G-17 with a switch, a bag of fentanyl laced meth, a stolen purse, and a fathers day card.

No wonder no one knew about the time capsule, they put the only newspaper clip of it in the time capsule!

A century is last week in Europe!

I'm sure someone will be lining thier pockets with the funds from the findings.

Very cool.

They were envisioning a brilliant shiny modern city with shiny cars and wealth and beauty…. Oops.

Same stuff that's at my grandparents house 😂

These people don't care that much about history. They obviously don't care about their city either.

Its to bad the people in charge didn't look at records to remove that time capsule be for it was heavily damaged, they didn't even know it was there.

These folks caused so much destruction w/the way they mishandled the artifacts. He must have been playing hacky sack and skipped the conservation and preservation courses?

It’s too bad most of those time capsules’ contents never quite make it. Inevitably water or other elements seep in and destroy things. But I agree with some of the other comments; that building looked like it was one worth preserving. I’m glad that many in downtown Detroit are being restored and saved finally, like Detroit Central Station, Book Tower, and the United Artists building, but there are a lot of other worthy candidates.

❤❤❤❤history

If they knew the time capsule existed and it's location, why was it damaged?

If they knew what Detroit would become, they would not have bothered at all.

If only those who put that there knew what would become of Detroit, they'd be appalled.

It looks like they bit into the box with a backhoe. Another DEI hire, I presume.

@sixtyfourchebby4507

Ай бұрын

110%

Don't they have records of time capsules put in buildings?

@DavidLS1

Ай бұрын

Yes, but they're stored in other time capsules.

At the YMCA.......... 🎶

Those items would have been in much better condition, had they just been stored in a Grandma & Grandpa's attic. The condition is of the items for just under 100 yrs. old is terrible. Maybe they thought the YMCA building would last 500 yrs, but it didn't. So everything they stored in there, wasn't really "that old". That stuff was only 40 yrs old when I was a kid in the 1960s. Europe has much more impressive finds! I still think Detroit has Great History in their City.

@STho205

29 күн бұрын

Most of these time capsules, a fad around 1900 +/- 30 years, don't hold up well. Many buildings have them in the engraved cornerstones. Tin and copper boxes transmit heat and cold. If they weren't soldered shut...then air and moisture too. Contents are typically disposable stuff like pulp paper printed pamphlets, cotton flags, news pulp, photos. They don't last as long as papyrus or carved idols of Egypt

there are books and papers on the shelf twice as old that are in near mint condition

If they knew it was there and where it was, how the hell did it get so mangled?

How cool🎉

Pretty sure I did a time capsule as a kid and insulted whoever found it 😂😂😂 Sorta like “If you found this you are..”

It's a letter that reads don't vote Democrat

Shame that YMCA was demolished.

Sad when the city that stored the time capsule had no idea there was a time capsule….great leadership 🙄

Why would he open them without preservation measures?

Dude i just imagined if they opened it and found old turds