A large crowd of former RCA employees gathered to watch as the time capsule was pulled from the ground and opened for the first time since 1990.
Inside the container were videocassettes, RCA memorabilia, ID badges and a newspaper from the day it was buried. Despite being more than two decades old, the contents were in good shape.
"Held pressure, and all the stuff in it, the newspaper, everything was in there, looked just the way it did the day we put it in there," Max Peters said. He was an employee at RCA, as well as one of the people that built the time capsule.
RCA closed in 1998, forcing Peters to start working at Cummins. But, Peters says he and his coworkers have remained close.
"This RCA family, they hold together. If anything happened when we were at the plant, somebody needed help, everybody chipped in and took care of them. It's not like other places, RCA was different than any place else I've ever worked in in my life. Like I say I spent 27 and a half years there."
RCA Park was opened in 1991, originally as Thomson Community Park, before changing its name in 2009.