Flashback 2002

On November 12, 2002, a time capsule was buried on the grounds of the brand new Pinnacol headquarters at Lowry. Tomorrow, July 7, 2015,  that time capsule will be opened after 13 years underground to help celebrate our 100 year anniversary.  In honor of this event I went ahead and researched some of the coolest things of 2002, because who knows, maybe some of these items are in the time capsule!

Coolest things in 2002: 

·       Trucker hats

A long time before
  Two and a Half Men

·       BlackBerry smartphones                          

·       Gen 2 iPods

·       Crocs

·       TiVo Series2

·       Xbox was introduced

·       PlayStation 2 was the bestselling video game console with Grand Theft Auto Vice City being the top game

·       Yu-Gi-Oh game cards

·       Ford F-series

·       Bleached hair/Chunky highlights

·       Sweat/track suits   

                                   

While some of these cool 2002 things may or may not be in the time capsule, there were also some pretty significant events that happened in 2002.

               Things that happened in 2002:

·       George W. Bush was President      

·       A gallon of gas averaged about $1.34

·       The most popular baby names in 2002 were Emily, Jacob, Madison and Michael

·       Spider-Man (the 1^st one) was the biggest blockbuster of the year

·       The Patriots beat the Rams in the Super bowl

·       The Anaheim Angels and Los Angeles Lakers are Champions

·       Tiger Woods wins his second consecutive Masters

·       Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped,  but was found safe in early 2003

·       Kelly Clarkson wins the first American Idol contest      

·       J.Lo (Jennifer Lopez) is named by Forbes as the most powerful Celebrity in the World

·       Miss America was Katie Harman from Ohio                   

·       Steve Fossett finished his non-stop trip around the world via balloon on July 4th. It took him 14 days, 19 hours and 51 minutes

·       Forest fires in Colorado have destroyed nearly 100,000 acres of land making them the worst in the state’s history. 
·       Scientists compare mouse and human genomes. The first analysis of two complete genomes reveals striking similarities. Scientists hope findings will hasten understanding of genetic diseases

While I seriously doubt there will be a trucker hat or a Gen 2 iPod or even a pair of crocs in the time capsule, it is possible we will see images of some very important things that happened in 2002. There could be newspaper articles or magazines. It is possible there could be an old Pinnacol shirt in there. It is also possible that those fashion trends we have grown to cringe about could be captured in photos left in the capsule. While Pinnacol has a 100 year history, whatever is in the time capsule (I pray there are not bugs!), will be displayed to see how far we have come in just 13 short years.

 -Alyson 

Our intern Alyson in 2002...

Alyson in 2015