Custodians at a New York high school found a decades-old time capsule that had originally been intended to be opened in 2017.
The Smithtown Central School District said students at Smithtown West High School started assembling the time capsule in 1973 and it was finally completed in 1992.
The time capsule was supposed to have been opened in 2017, but it ended up lost and forgotten in a storage room until being discovered by custodial staff during summer break.
The capsule, a large plastic trash bin with a lid, contained artifacts including photos, a 1974 calendar, a 1987 banner proclaiming the school to be Newsday’s 1987 school of the year for community service, a May 1992 lunch menu, pom-poms, a “student of the month” certificate and a VHS “video yearbook” from 1991-92.
“If anybody has a VHS player, we’d love to swing by and watch this with you,” William Holl, the school’s principal, said in a video shared by the district.
Holl said the items will put on display so this year’s students can see the school’s history.
“As things change, they stay the same, right? Prom, graduation t-shirts, banners, pom-poms, we’re still doing all these things but it’s cool to see how they’ve evolved,” Holl told News 12 Long Island.
