AHC - Make time capsules a VERY big thing by 2020!

Could there be a strong possible market for auctioning off time capsules?

  • OMG Shadow, what kinda crazy idea is this? Heck no, no one wants old junk!

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I was reading PM's excellent ATL, and one of the user posts contained a link to this site, and this concept began bouncing around inside my empty head until it collided with two other, disparate, unconnected thoughts/memories. There are tv shows that feature folks bidding, sight unseen/almost unseen, for the contents of storage lockers. Here is a link to a wiki about one called Storage Wars. There is also a collectable trading card game, called Magic: the Gathering, where folks buy/collect cards, but where the cards are parts of a playable game.

So what did my evil brain come up with now? Looking back on the history of time capsules, how could these three ideas lead to an ATL, where they all come together?

Using the examples above, what if:

Folks back in the day had begun laying down (building secret underground vaults), where things of historical interest were to be stored, not to be opened until 20/50/100 years later? Could collectable baseball cards have been a huge draw, for when folks are bidding on a time capsule, being sold to the highest bidder in a well publicized public auction? Could the space pens have been put into storage, and folks now a days being able to buy a mint condition, authentic first addition pen? What kinds of other items, could have been made, back in the day, specifically for being placed into long term storage lockers/time capsules?

And what kind of items, producible today, could be sequestered for tomorrow's collectors?

So basically, what kinds of ideas would our communities members think might be of interest/value in the future? Any thoughts?
 
Oh, and as an interesting bit, the attached poll closes in one year. Lets see what folks had to say about this thread/ideas, 2/5/10 years from now, shall we?
 
I doubt they'd put baseball cards in them in the old days. They weren't considered very valuable at the time (Which is partially why the older rarer ones are considered valuable now).
 
Thanks for the reply!

I have to wonder, had the idea of a baseball trading card GAME been invented back in the day, if that would have had any real effect on the popularity/value of baseball cards at the time, and what some of those cards, preserved in time capsules and brought back into circulation now might be in today's $. Some other things I would like to see, would be special addition coins.
 
So folks, what kind of thing can we picture being done to promote a storage wars/time capsule marriage, where businesses in the 1950's and 1960's make something, and drum up interest in them, but also hold back some of the products in time capsules, that will be auctioned off in the future? I saw a video on you tube, where some guy found a bomb shelter on his property, and it was stocked with items from the times. Could something like bomb shelters have gotten a boost from being set up and marketed as a dual purpose facility, where you have an emergency shelter for bad times, but also have a place set aside and sealed off, that could serve as a time capsule for items placed within them?
 
ANother thing I'm embarrassed not to have thought of/mentioned earlier was wine. As in, bomb shelter/wine cellar/time capsule. Not sure that folks would stock a bomb shelter with wine, but if we were going with secret_underground, then bomb shelter would easily fit that description, and if we can see bomb shelters as possible time capsules, then folks could set aside a decent selection of wines, and age them 20/50/100 years is a safe and stable location...
 
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