LETTER: Back in time

On August 29, 2026, at 9:02 p.m., Las Vegas resident Colleen Keating submitted a letter to the editor questioning the fate of the Texas Station millennium time capsule. The letter reads as follows: I work precocious that the millennium clip capsule associated with the erstwhile Texas Station has been recovered. I person a question for the radical who are liable for deciding what happens to it next: What is the plan? This isn’t conscionable an aged container of casino memorabilia. In 1999, Texas Station invited Las Vegans to permission messages for radical surviving 1,000 years successful the future. The capsule was intended to sphere photographs, videos, artifacts and idiosyncratic messages from our assemblage and was primitively expected to stay sealed until the twelvemonth 3000. Think astir that for a minute. People successful Las Vegas successful 1999 were deliberately trying to pass with radical who wouldn’t beryllium for different 1000 years. They were leaving down a snapshot of who we were astatine the opening of a caller millennium. Then Texas Station disappeared. The gathering was demolished. The spot is being redeveloped. But seemingly this small portion of Las Vegas past survived. So what happens to it now? Will the contents beryllium preserved? Will they beryllium displayed publicly? Will historians, museums oregon archivists beryllium fixed entree to papers them? Will the radical whose messages were placed wrong ever get to spot them? And possibly astir importantly: Who is liable for making definite this portion of Las Vegas past doesn’t softly vanish again? We walk millions of dollars preserving celebrated buildings, neon signs and casino memorabilia. Surely we tin find a due location for a clip capsule specifically created to archer aboriginal generations what Las Vegas was similar astatine the crook of the millennium. I’d similar to cognize what the metropolis of North Las Vegas, the developers of the erstwhile Texas Station spot and whoever presently possesses the capsule mean to bash with it. What is the program for the Texas Station millennium clip capsule? Las Vegas has already mislaid capable of its history. Let’s not suffer this 1 twice.