Forward to the Future and Back on the Same Day?

On Saturday September 14, at 6:00 PM you can help send artifacts of present day South Pasadena forward into the future, and then immediately afterward watch Steven Spielberg’s movie classic “Back to the Future” at the same location.

 The South Pasadena Preservation Foundation’s time capsule project is one of their contributions to the City’s 125th Anniversary Celebration. The capsule will include artifacts of life in South Pasadena in 2013 that will be opened on the City’s bicentennial celebration in 2088.

The time capsule will archive artifacts and documentation of South Pasadena life during the 125th Anniversary year, including South Pasadena Middle School and High School yearbooks for 2013; copies of each issue of this year’s South Pasadena Review; Jeff Burke’s “Mission Street Memories” photomural; several books about South Pasadena history; and a photo album of South Pasadena Centennial homes with the preservation stewards who are helping to assure the homes will be in fine fettle at the bicentennial.

 Following the Time Capsule event, the South Pasadena Preservation will present Steven Spielberg’s movie classic, “Back to the Future,” starring Michael J. Fox. As the final Summer Movie in the Park, the screening is an especially appropriate movie tie-in to encapsulation of artifacts of life in South Pasadena today that won’t be opened until long into the future. Perhaps some of the children (and even a few adults) at this “Forward and Back to the Future” will be around for the time capsule grand opening in 2088.