The August 28 , 2007 issue of Esquire ran a opus byChuck Klostermanon theTulsa time capsulewe probe a few calendar week back . An excerpt appears below and you may say the entire storyhere .
In June of 1957 , the community of Tulsa buried a Plymouth Belvedere in a downtown concrete dugout beneath the Oklahoma topsoil . The car would pretend as the public vortex for a time condensation that would be unearth five decades later . It would also be the princely booty in a stridently futurist contest : During the summertime of its sepulture , various local citizens were given the opportunity to guess what the population of Tulsa would be in 2007 . Whoever was near ( and was , presumptively , still animated ) would win the ( now Hellenic ) car , along with several gallon of gas and oil . It appears that people in 1957 were n’t incontrovertible that gas and oil would still be in usance half a one C later . This is how optimistic Americans used to be : We used to think that auto of the future would plausibly unravel on uranium , tater peel , and distilled water .
See also : Tulsa Time Capsule ( 1957 )
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