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(Updated) Time capsule found in BG Central Admin debris PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 09 August 2012 14:00
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'Time capsule' that was found during demolition of the Central Administration Building. (Photos: J.D. Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune)
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Municipal Administrator John Fawcett, right, holds 'time capsule' that Don Williams, far left, of D&R Demolition delivered to the city while BG Mayor Richard Edwards looks on.

Bowling Green Mayor Richard Edwatds and Municipal Administrator John Fawcett this morning accepted a sealed steel 'time capsule' that was found Thursday during demolition of the Central Administration Building, 140 S. Grove St.

Don Williams, of D&R Demolition delivered the box to the City Administrative Services Building.

The city and the BG City Schools will be working on a plan to open the capsule at a public event, probably before the start of classes later this month.

Last Updated on Friday, 10 August 2012 10:43
 

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# 2012-08-09 14:11
The probably weren't expecting it to be opened so soon. We have done a horrible job preserving our history.
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# 2012-08-09 14:36
Agreed
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# 2012-08-09 19:09
yes tom your right, it makes me sick!!!!
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# 2012-08-09 14:20
Quit complaining....I didn't see your wallet come out when the building was up for sale.
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# 2012-08-09 15:24
Good remark !
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# 2012-08-09 14:43
I wonder what might be found in the debris of the Popular Culture house? To whomever finds it, please, please don't give it to the BGSU administration as I am certain we would never learn what was inside despite the historical significance and beneficence of its origins.
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# 2012-08-09 15:16
Once again, the old house belongs to BGSU, what ever they may find in the demo, still belongs to BGSU.
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# 2012-08-11 19:27
I agree! Of course, as fast as the debris was taken away if there was anything of value found we will never know about it. It's as if they think if all signs of the house are removed quickly enough we will forget it was ever there.
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# 2012-08-09 14:54
Wow, Bowling Green is doing a number on their city! So sad :( This info released just days after the PopC house is starting to be torn down. Just think, between that president and other folks there won't be anything left of historical value in Bowling Green!
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# 2012-08-09 15:22
BGSU has the right to tear down their own buildings as seen fit to. Bowling Green is a separate entity. The demo's of the 2 schools were not hidden from the public. You don't see any log cabins in B.G, or Outhouses, or gravel streets, it's called progress ! The Main Original campus still exists, and preserved, the old buildings downtown are still there.
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# 2012-08-10 00:43
Avery Drive is still gravel. And this brilliant "bike trail" that they are putting in (on other peoples' private property) from the community center to the high school is stone (for the landowners to mow around and destroy lawn mower blades). And yet if anyone in BG wants to put in a driveway, it has to be concrete or asphalt. Double standard anyone?

And the last outhouse (located originally on Poe Road across from the high school behind a house that no longer exists) is now on display at the sewer treatment plant.

All that, and I'm still tired of everyone whining about all of these old, run-down buildings that should be used for "office space." Been past the old Pharm building lately? How about the mall? There are lots of available buildings in Bowling Green. The old ones need to go!!
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# 2012-08-10 15:01
THANK YOU Greg.
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# 2012-08-10 16:44
Judging from the smell from Poe Ditch yesterday, I think someone is still using that old outhouse!!
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# 2012-08-09 15:23
Very true, Tom. In fact, I was thinking of posting on this earlier. All those days of secretaries and filing away papers. All those cups of coffee and endless stares at the junior high buildings out the windows. All those faculty-administration conversations and mediations....much history in that building, now it's gone. The time capsule concept is most interesting, and I am glad those former administration employees had the sense to portrait the time in the capsule for others to find when the building went down one day, as it now has. Very cool, that was a good building, and still don't know why they did not just turn it into something else. Agree, Rachel, and it is happening all over Toledo as well. Tired and Jack, I disagree, but to WC fan, you are probably right. Conservative as alwasy, we won't find out a d@#$ THING.
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# 2012-08-10 13:09
Wow..you people just don't get it! The old Central building would have cost more to refurbish than build new! The same people that complain about wasting tax dollars on teachers want to spend millions to attempt to fix this pile? I remember water leaking through the roof into the light fixtures..toilets that were downright scary..and seldom worked..roaches running whenever a light was turned on..pieces falling from the ceiling..boilers on their last legs..plumbing and electrics totally shot..a money pit.
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# 2012-08-09 15:48
I am so TIRED of hearing people complain, the buildings were old and outdated, YOU could have bought the old high school and junior high. They don't have any historical value, you have memories of the buildings, that is all.
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# 2012-08-09 16:19
...contents of the time capsule reveal millions of dollars stashed away to be used by future citizens of BG to preserve historic buildings.
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# 2012-08-09 16:38
Everything is cyclic. Seasons change: spring rebirth, summer flourish, autumn harvest, winter death. Day becomes night becomes day. We build, we use, we tear down, we rebuild. NOTHING IS PERMANENT. To grow, we must be willing to change.

The new things we build today will one day be "historical", too, and they may need to go so that another improvement, a positive upward growth, can be put in its place.

Learn to let go. We have photos, videos, plenty of documentation preserved. There is not room on Planet Earth to preserve EVERY physical entity. Embrace the change; you will see it is for the better for all.
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# 2012-08-10 15:03
AGREE !
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# 2012-08-09 16:46
You guys are right but, you are comparing apples to oranges. They found something from the "Old" BG Jr. High not the college. I would be interested to see what was in there.My father attended that school in the early 1930's. It should be kept and placed in the new Jr. high archives. So we have memories down the road. Maybe put in the archives at the Wd Cty Lib.We have destroyed so many history items in Wd Cty already.
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# 2012-08-10 15:08
Who is THEY , find out, call and ask about what ever they found. Easy as that! News flash, they, the mean old Demo Crew did find a time capsule in the Pop Culture Building, University people DID save some items from the building, these people involoved are not monsters you make them out to be. Get over it ! Time marches on, and so be it !
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# 2012-08-09 19:08
Wow!Jr High torn down, BGSU popular culture house torn down, BG central Admin building torn down. Bowling alley closed indefinitely... lots of changes for my old stomping grounds!
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# 2012-08-10 12:59
To the people (Tired you are one of them) on here saying that this is progress and that it will still be remembered in photos, vids, etc, I TOTALLY agree. I was simply imagining all the years and activities that went on inside those buildings. I agree however, and am very much a progressive person. If anything, this city badly should consider expanding rather than shrinking. I hail from Toledo and Michigan, and just came back from NYC in April, and I think I know at least one possible, however expensive, place now for grad. school, NYC. Fact is, I am very much a large, liberal urban city type of guy, small towns are nice, but I will not lie in saying they can bore me. Church bells and little town events are nice and all, as is being "conservative" and
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# 2012-08-10 14:12
Too bad a few of the more prominent architectural elements from the old schools couldn't have been saved to be incorporated into a new city office building. I'm sure there could have been something saved, a door frame or section of marble or something that would help ease the loss of the structures and memories they held.
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# 2012-08-13 08:37
I love the demolition! Let's have a plan and move foreword rather then have vacant cascaras just laying around like the old funeral home, pool hall and national guard building. If people want to preserve these treasures then be proactive and purchase them! Restore them with your money if they are such surefire winners. The simple fact is that building codes, ADA requirements and EPA requirements have made restoring these buildings undoable.
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# 2012-08-13 12:30
Maybe if the Demo the entire city of Bowling Green, I won't have to listen to all the whiners. Stop complaining about the trail too. It is going in so deal with it.
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# 2012-08-14 09:40
Just finished reading all the different points of view. wWow!!! As I passed the rubble of my former junior high and grassy area of my former high this last weekend I thought, perhaps a plaque at each site with a bronze impression of each corresponding building might be a way to remind the future generations of these places that were so much a part of our lives.
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# 2012-08-14 15:57
Maybe if all these people who love the old buildings would have voted differently, there wouldn't be new buildings - or complaints about tearing down the old ones.
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# 2012-08-16 06:07
Hey Matt, NYC sounds just like the place you need to be, or maybe back to Detroit,nice place that it is. Growing the city always takes land, Wood County,is one of the top five counties in Ohio in agriculture production,so if you still eat you may want to re-consider how much land you take out of production. And PK, as you age you may be happy they don't use that building reasoning of yours on---you!
BRSU72, maybe to many regulations in this FREE country of ours? If you stiffle free enterprise long enough ,you just won't have any,that is really good for the economy though, I suppose.
I think the city building and the police building shoud be torn down too, now that has some merit......without all those folks we could save some good tax dollars we could spend on ...ourselves!
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# 2012-08-16 10:51
And PK, as you age you may be happy they don't use that building reasoning of yours on---you!
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A BUILDING HERE..A HUNK OF BRICK AND MORTAR..NOT A HUMAN BEING!
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# 2012-08-16 09:13
Hey Geraldo ..........Jimmie Hoffa's ashes!
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