Nebraska Time Capsule Unsealed: 5,000 Relics, One Chevrolet Vega, 50 Years Later

Time capsule Nebraska: Fifty years after Harold Davisson entombed a Chevrolet Vega, leisure suit, and 5,000 items behind his Seward appliance shop, the world’s largest time capsule opens to answer 'What did people put in time capsules?' and 'Who built Nebraska’s time capsule?' As Bryce Davisson noted, “He believed in the power of preserving everyday life.”
Inside this concrete-and-steel sarcophagus, a Vega gleams and go-go boots defy fashion extinction, sparking nostalgia and 'How do you open a time capsule?' alongside 'What happens to time capsules after decades underground?' Children gawked, elders reminisced, and the faint scent of 1975 mingled with the question: who in 2025 still owns bikini underwear for posterity?
Among the 5,000 artifacts, Harold Davisson included a full set of bikini underwear, a can of beer, and a Chevy Vega—still shinier than most 2025 midlife crises in Seward, Nebraska.