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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 22, 2013
Caption: The Coalinga Centennial Time Capsule
Additional Description: 2006 Centennial Time Capsule at
the Coalinga Town Clock which
was originally privately funded
and dedicated in 1977
A.Nishioka, Architect

...and when the seal to the tomb of Tutankhamen was pierced Howard Carter made a hole large enough to permit the rays of a lighted candle. Lord Carnarvon quickly exclaimed, “Can you see anything?” Carter said “Yes, wonderful things.”
Egypt, Valley of the Kings, 1922

The vessel laid below is filled with curiosities from 1977 and again from out time. It awaits those who will retrieve it on the third day of the fourth month in the year 2016.

Respicite deinde in perpetuo progredimini

Coalinga Centennial Committee and the Citizen of Coalinga
Submitted: March 29, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p237073
File Size: 3.443 Megabytes

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