A Diet Pepsi can, a floppy disk, milk caps known as Pogs and 25-year-old essays predicting flying cars, hoverboards and a cure for a cancer were unearthed this week from a time capsule buried in front of La Verne Heights Elementary school in 1994.

Former principal, Marcia Pateau, and other school alumni were on hand for a special ceremony Thursday to watch as the receptacle emerged from the ground. Items also stored included a water-damaged photo album, rolls of paperwork and knickknacks, such as a bumper sticker and T-shirt.

“We decided to create a time capsule in 1994 when a large oak tree in front of the school was removed to widen Baseline Road,” Pateau said in a news release. “It provided an opportunity for students to bury items typifying their generation, along with their predictions for the future.

Maintenance electrician Jim Spiotto, with Bonita Unified School District, digs up the time capsule as current and former school officials and students watch at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Former principal Marcia Pateau, center, unrolls some of the paperwork found in the capsule as current and former school officials and students unearth a time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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Current student council members try and pull up the time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Some of the items are seen as current and former school officials and students unearth a time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

A bumper sticker is pulled out of the time capsule as current and former school officials and students unearth a time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)



Current and former school officials and students look at the items pulled out of the time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Maintenance electrician Jim Spiotto, with Bonita Unified School District, finds a t-shirt as current and former school officials and students unearth a time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

A water damaged photo album is seen as current and former school officials and students unearth a time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Former principal Marcia Pateau, center, talks about burying the time capsule in 1994, when she was principal, as current and former school officials and students unearth a time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Fifth grade teacher Lauren Barnes, right, takes a photo with La Verne Mayor Don Kendrick as current and former school officials and students unearth a time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. Barnes was president of the student council that buried the time capsule at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)



Current and former school officials and students unearth a time capsule at La Verne Heights Elementary in La Verne on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The time capsule was buried at the front of the school back in 1994. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

“It’s an incredible experience to return over two decades later and connect with my former students as adults, many who now have their own children attending Bonita Unified schools,” she said.

Jim Spiotto, a Bonita Unified maintenance electrician, started the event by digging up the time capsule as current and former school officials and students watched. At one point, the students helped lift out the capsule.

Among those in attendance was Lauren Barnes, teacher and student council adviser at La Verne Heights, who was a fifth-grader and student council president in 1994 when a time capsule filled. She will now help students select items for a new 25-year time capsule to be buried later this year.

The items will be on display at the school until June 4.