In bright sunshine on a very warm December afternoon a small crowd gathered to hear Mike Pachota, owner of Sharky’s on the Pier restaurant, 1600 Harbor Drive, talk about the items to be stored for 25 years in a time capsule.

“Our 25th anniversary was in February, and we invited guests to provide items to fill the time capsule, a pipe 36 inches long and 9 inches in diameter,” said Pachota. “It contains memorabilia from the restaurant, menus, newspapers, magazines and a prized item of mine, a windshield snowscraper shaped like a shark that we used as a promotional item years ago.”