Oh I remember this so well. I was a child and I was enthralled. Now here I am in the future and the coolest houses are polished wood, real cherry and walnut, ceramic tile, marble countertops. I would like a dishwasher like that though.
Funny how most of our houses still look like the 'old fashioned' houses they show early in the short. For all the attempts to reinvent the house in the first part of the 20th century, we still live in the same kinds of places. Love the design of this one.
"...and one zone for irradiated foods." This is truely hilarious. And yes, in the early sixties, we wore suits to Disneyland. I remember my little green wool suit with a bow tie and my Buster Browns. Can't imagine going on the Grizzly water ride in that getup...
The concept of an ultrasonic washer is neat, and environmental. Those electronic lifts for the shelves would drive me crazy though - I need to be able to open shit up, not wait for it to take it's time hovering down.
Haha, I remember when microwaves were the "ovens of the future." But as useful as they are today, they really never got past being the "food and beverage re-heaters of the future."
Well, this might look corny, but it DID predict the success of some technologies with a surprising degree of accuracy. Speakerphones, household microwave ovens, variable lighting, digital thermostats, etc. Too bad the ultrasonic dishwashers didn't work out.
I want to transmit the scent of roses with the touch of a button! It's 2010 and the best we have are fucking Glade Plug-ins. I also think it's funny that whenever a futuristic kitchen is presented (Back to the Future 2, this house, etc.) they always show these elaborate drop-down automated cabinets. I think it's pretty safe to say even 100 years from now we'll have good ol' cupboards to store our food.
The houses they have then are the same way the houses we have now look. There is no difference on the outside. Most of the things inside houses are just minor upgrades to things that were invented back then. I mean yes it's a lot better and would have looked awesome to them, but in reality they are just upgrades, not new things mostly. TV, Stove, Microwave, Washer & Dryer, etc...it was all invented by then. The thing I think they wouldve liked were iPods and computers, especially internet
Yeah, i after this, i watched a Modern Marvels on the History channel, about atomic energy. Allot of our food (and other things) is Irradiated at this warehouse in Sothern Cali. It's used to sterilize the product, but doesn't actually affect the food it self.
"One zone for regular refridgeration." Okay, that nice. "One for frozen." Of course! Then I can have Ice Cream! "And one for irradiated food." Wait...what?
BTW, anyone else find it depressing that the "houses of today" that they showed (which were build no later than 1967 (when the House of the Future closed)) look exactly the same as the houses of 2010? I want neighborhoods full of ridiculous plastic houses, godammit!
It's amazing how times have change, along with how we think the future would be like. Thou they got some things wrong, they did predicted quite a few things if you look closely.
About the kids here chuckling for the "irradiation". We've been constantly irradiating our foods when we cook them since prehistoric times, we usually call it "heat". Do'h. (scientifically it is known as "thermal radiation")
@michaelpriest I think you are right because the house is featured in a Time Life Science book that I have from around 1970 or so and they made no mention of it being torn down only that the cantelevered wings had only sunk 1/8 of an inch in ten years of it being built.
This clip is from 1959 I think. This was to promote Disney’s attraction Monsanto’s House of the Future, which operated from 1957-1967. This film may have aired as early as 1957 maybe
This film was made in either the mid fifties or early 60's, and television was HUGELY popular then and it wasn't brand new either, it's been around since the 30's!
They just published the book, “The House of the Future” by David Bossert. Talks about the fascinating story of this beloved attraction. Lots of photos, many never before seen, are inside. Definitely get a copy. You won’t be disappointed.
so when the motor that lowers the "cool zone" burns out, your screwed until the repair guy comes. I think that's why they kept the manually opening doors
So does that irradiated food section continue to irradiate your food? Or are they making sure not to irradiate your not irradiated food? (Cross-contamination!)
They also made a movie about plastics and oil and mentioned that without oil a lady won't have her cosmetics. Of course they only joked about running out of oil because back then we didn't think we'd have that problem.
I read that when the exibit was retired the house was so sturdy that the standard demolition tools just bounced off. it took weeks to saw it into pieces to take away.
Omg I went in that when I was a kid,good thing it did not catch on fire with so much plastic in it. But if it had caught on fire,I'm sure If I duck and cover I would have been fine.
There is a TV at 5:14. And it wasn't so much as a "prediction" as an idea. It's kind of interesting how it looks like an old-fashioned futuristic style.
It will be a 5,000 square foot, normal-looking house. The location will be Tomorrowland again and there will be severe changes that only forty years can make. The new House of the Future opens in May.
until the day that there is a power failure and stop working the whole house because everything is electric , then comes the light and the house catches fire
I had read about this house.. never saw this video.. looked kind of cool. What I remember reading about about was how hard it was to destroy this thing when it was closed.. the plastic walls had to be taken apart with chainsaw.
I can't get over the lowering cabinets and adjustable sink. Why would anyone pay extra for those when the standard ones are effective, fast, cheap, and less likely to break?
In the '50 and '60s, you bet your ass it was. Manufacturers could mold things that you just phsyically can't stamp with a sheet of metal. It was efficient, cheap, reliable, and convenient.
being a plumber we now use alot of plastic now days they cost less faster to install easyer to install and last forever one catch its not UV stable and should not be left in sunlight that house would have crubled by now
Plastic is great. I am not ashamed for saying it! No ones' life isn't touched by plastic. It serves its propose well. I love plastic straws, tupperware, garbage bags, and all the plastic components of my vehicle, my plastic makeup containers, etc.
Back before the internet was the big thing, people said the same thing about TV, then before that about radio and movies, and then before that about the automated printing pres...
what always confused me about ideas like this, is when it comes to the oddly shaped furniture thats actually kind of cool, why doesnt that exist? like if they can create a model for it, i dont see whats stopping them from making the real thing. i understand with the plastic material and technology and all, but the furniture shapes should exist
NO, you do the research for everyone that makes sarcastic remarks. Like i did. Actually you don't know where it is right now today at the moment of you reading this, all you know is where the concrete foundation is. so saying its junk in a trash dump, is more likely than saying it got recycled, since they did not recycle back in those days when it was taken down, because its said to have been demolished then it must be trashed, and back then it would have ended up someplace as junk.
I was in that house as a child, I later heard that the demolition story was made up. And that it was air lifted by two helicopters and taken to Lake Arrowhead Ca. and belongs to a retired Monsanto executive.
So much obsession on "man made materials"... It is so interesting this extremist pendulum effect in our humanity: From seeking an absolutist "human made" techno-craze to "100% organic" naturalistic obsession. Are we ever gonna learn to be balanced and harmonic?
@copyright1982 You are wrong, my friend! It's futuristic to have cabinets disappear and...take up as much space somewhere else, so...you need twice the space! And can't see what's in them. The future!!!
Actually, the house was torn down and was extremely difficult to dismantle. Apparently, nothing could demolish it and even the foundation exists there today as a planter. Do your research.
This rather interesting to look at how these people in that timeline has presented the future. At the end these people never had the chance to live in such fancy looking house.. If they had?, then our lives would have looked a bit different in design and lifestyle of housing development. Now we are in a time of Ecomonic Crisis thats about to collapse. Pity.
Any time someone comes up with an idea of "the future ____", it just comes out incredibly goofy and impractical. Who would want to live in a home like that?! Not many, I'll bet.
I have a theory that companies change as the people in charge die and get replaced. I think Monsanto may have been a lot less nasty, for lack of a better word, in the 50's. Another example: Eli Lilly and Co. Used to lower youth death counts from Influenza in the early 20th century. Now they just sell dubious and over-priced chemicals to dysfunctional families.
this house turned out to be very strong, when they tried to tear it down in 1967, they got out the wrecking ball, I am not kidding, it bounced off, they had to take it apart with blowtorches and chainsaws over a 2 week period
nice but we took another path... not upgrading our house but the tech. The new houses have sharp edges with blocky designs and more straight plain colours
You would be shit out of luck scrounging for food in that kitchen if the power went out. And spices in huge dispensers like that just say spider eggs to me. I notice the woman having to puse every few moments to be sure the latches catch. I do like the separate pod for the kids however, Junior and Babs can kill each other in private.
Did they say one cold zone for "irradiated foods" I guess this was in the time when radiation would give you great skin, and they packed radium and radon in everything.
Oh I remember this so well. I was a child and I was enthralled. Now here I am in the future and the coolest houses are polished wood, real cherry and walnut, ceramic tile, marble countertops. I would like a dishwasher like that though.
Funny how most of our houses still look like the 'old fashioned' houses they show early in the short. For all the attempts to reinvent the house in the first part of the 20th century, we still live in the same kinds of places. Love the design of this one.
I wish this was still in the park it'd be so cool to see what people thought the future would be like back then.
I love how everything is made of plastic and they still light up at the end of the part. They must've not known what nicotine does to plastic.
I'm glad I can just quickly open doors instead of standing there waiting for my refrigerator and cupboards to descend from above!
Hilarious!! The background music is too funny! Those folding doors were used on the jupiter 2 in Lost in Space
"...and one zone for irradiated foods." This is truely hilarious. And yes, in the early sixties, we wore suits to Disneyland. I remember my little green wool suit with a bow tie and my Buster Browns. Can't imagine going on the Grizzly water ride in that getup...
buster browns was my sh**!
This house is now floating around in the Pacific Gyre.
The concept of an ultrasonic washer is neat, and environmental. Those electronic lifts for the shelves would drive me crazy though - I need to be able to open shit up, not wait for it to take it's time hovering down.
You can thank Paul Frees for that. His voice is used through out many Disneyland attractions and videos.
Haha, I remember when microwaves were the "ovens of the future." But as useful as they are today, they really never got past being the "food and beverage re-heaters of the future."
Hahaha "plastic is fthe uture" lol well what I know is that plastic is one of the most problems around the world
Giorgio De la Cruz you have reason but they didn´t know that in 1957... ajajajaja
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That's one of the least evil things Monsanto has done surprisingly.
To be fair it’s only plastic garbage that’s the big issue. Also the fact plastic can enter your bloodstream
Well, this might look corny, but it DID predict the success of some technologies with a surprising degree of accuracy. Speakerphones, household microwave ovens, variable lighting, digital thermostats, etc. Too bad the ultrasonic dishwashers didn't work out.
Oh boy, I bet those layers of asbestos really kept that house warm!
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There would be no need for houses in Monsantoland, humans would be genetically modified to withstand the harshest environments!
NOBODY CARES ABOUT GMO"S
That's just what a Synth would say, you Synth
+Joseph Tafur I do! Folks need to be EDUCATED about GMO's and how evil and greedy Monsanto is
+Kiyoko504 please define Synth
She'll be back someday! We're in a Second Plastic Revolution.
I want to transmit the scent of roses with the touch of a button! It's 2010 and the best we have are fucking Glade Plug-ins.
I also think it's funny that whenever a futuristic kitchen is presented (Back to the Future 2, this house, etc.) they always show these elaborate drop-down automated cabinets. I think it's pretty safe to say even 100 years from now we'll have good ol' cupboards to store our food.
glade plug ins 🤢🤮
That's my "dream home"!!! Love the retro futuristic look!!!
The houses they have then are the same way the houses we have now look. There is no difference on the outside. Most of the things inside houses are just minor upgrades to things that were invented back then. I mean yes it's a lot better and would have looked awesome to them, but in reality they are just upgrades, not new things mostly. TV, Stove, Microwave, Washer & Dryer, etc...it was all invented by then. The thing I think they wouldve liked were iPods and computers, especially internet
i hear this ride is coming back.
Yeah, i after this, i watched a Modern Marvels on the History channel, about atomic energy. Allot of our food (and other things) is Irradiated at this warehouse in Sothern Cali. It's used to sterilize the product, but doesn't actually affect the food it self.
"One zone for regular refridgeration." Okay, that nice.
"One for frozen." Of course! Then I can have Ice Cream!
"And one for irradiated food." Wait...what?
BTW, anyone else find it depressing that the "houses of today" that they showed (which were build no later than 1967 (when the House of the Future closed)) look exactly the same as the houses of 2010? I want neighborhoods full of ridiculous plastic houses, godammit!
It's amazing how times have change, along with how we think the future would be like. Thou they got some things wrong, they did predicted quite a few things if you look closely.
ahhh the good o'le days... when you had kids set the table, wife stays home, and that yummy irradiated food. lol
lol vinyl floors beautiful. LMAO
About the kids here chuckling for the "irradiation". We've been constantly irradiating our foods when we cook them since prehistoric times, we usually call it "heat". Do'h. (scientifically it is known as "thermal radiation")
@michaelpriest I think you are right because the house is featured in a Time Life Science book that I have from around 1970 or so and they made no mention of it being torn down only that the cantelevered wings had only sunk 1/8 of an inch in ten years of it being built.
I added this to my 'Disney Favorites' playlist (come check it out!). This is such a cool piece of Disney nostalgia.
This clip is from 1959 I think. This was to promote Disney’s attraction Monsanto’s House of the Future, which operated from 1957-1967. This film may have aired as early as 1957 maybe
@midnightmilo actually, irradiating food doesn't make it radioactive. neat little tidbit there (:
This film was made in either the mid fifties or early 60's, and television was HUGELY popular then and it wasn't brand new either, it's been around since the 30's!
They just published the book, “The House of the Future” by David Bossert.
Talks about the fascinating story of this beloved attraction.
Lots of photos, many never before seen, are inside.
Definitely get a copy. You won’t be disappointed.
Watching the Disney movie Tomorrowland and then seeing this with the little girl is trippy
so when the motor that lowers the "cool zone" burns out, your screwed until the repair guy comes. I think that's why they kept the manually opening
doors
thanks for the link! you shared it to me a long time ago but i just now found it! thank you so much!! i very much enjoyed the videos.....
So does that irradiated food section continue to irradiate your food? Or are they making sure not to irradiate your not irradiated food? (Cross-contamination!)
They also made a movie about plastics and oil and mentioned that without oil a lady won't have her cosmetics. Of course they only joked about running out of oil because back then we didn't think we'd have that problem.
That phone in the bathroom didn't challenge my imagination.
Wow.....This is amazing to see their future predictions...... Where did you possibly find this footage???!!!!
"Can't...stop...smiling...help..."
I read that when the exibit was retired the house was so sturdy that the standard demolition tools just bounced off. it took weeks to saw it into pieces to take away.
Omg I went in that when I was a kid,good thing it did not catch on fire with so much plastic in it. But if it had caught on fire,I'm sure If I duck and cover I would have been fine.
There is a TV at 5:14. And it wasn't so much as a "prediction" as an idea. It's kind of interesting how it looks like an old-fashioned futuristic style.
It will be a 5,000 square foot, normal-looking house. The location will be Tomorrowland again and there will be severe changes that only forty years can make. The new House of the Future opens in May.
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until the day that there is a power failure and stop working the whole house because everything is electric , then comes the light and the house catches fire
I had read about this house.. never saw this video.. looked kind of cool. What I remember reading about about was how hard it was to destroy this thing when it was closed.. the plastic walls had to be taken apart with chainsaw.
I can't get over the lowering cabinets and adjustable sink. Why would anyone pay extra for those when the standard ones are effective, fast, cheap, and less likely to break?
In the '50 and '60s, you bet your ass it was.
Manufacturers could mold things that you just phsyically can't stamp with a sheet of metal. It was efficient, cheap, reliable, and convenient.
this is way bad ass I love all that atomic age stuff.
thanks for posting.
I wonder what my house will look like in the year 1986?
Monsanto's house of fail!
This is awesome
Indeed. The Monsanto Corp. was a huge sponsor of the first incarnation of Tomorrowland in '55.
@MrSponge1985 No, they tore it down around 1967 or so...but it was really well built, and wrecking balls just bounced off it.
being a plumber we now use alot of plastic now days they cost less faster to install easyer to install and last forever one catch its not UV stable and should not be left in sunlight that house would have crubled by now
Wow, thanks for the info! :)
People have been dreaming of flying cars for decades, we learned a while back that they are impractical and not to expect them for a long time
Plastic is great. I am not ashamed for saying it! No ones' life isn't touched by plastic. It serves its propose well. I love plastic straws, tupperware, garbage bags, and all the plastic components of my vehicle, my plastic makeup containers, etc.
Back before the internet was the big thing, people said the same thing about TV, then before that about radio and movies, and then before that about the automated printing pres...
"design and science combined for the utmost in convenience and food preservation"--haha, soooo monsanto
In 30 years, people will have much the same reaction to the Corning Day Made of Glass video as we do to this.
The dishwasher concept is actually pretty awesome, But it's 50/50 if it would add or detract from resell value.
@allpainppd
Wow, in the future I can have the scent of salty sea air. Lol
here tomorrow, gone the next day
"push buttons instead of dialing!"
It may sound strange, but in that timelife they had digital devices, not for public use, only for government classified purposes..
What would morning be without irradiated ham?
what always confused me about ideas like this, is when it comes to the oddly shaped furniture thats actually kind of cool, why doesnt that exist? like if they can create a model for it, i dont see whats stopping them from making the real thing. i understand with the plastic material and technology and all, but the furniture shapes should exist
What's irradiated food?
This already looks like the modern houses :)
NO, you do the research for everyone that makes sarcastic remarks. Like i did.
Actually you don't know where it is right now today at the moment of you reading this, all you know is where the concrete foundation is.
so saying its junk in a trash dump, is more likely than saying it got recycled, since they did not recycle back in those days when it was taken down, because its said to have been demolished then it must be trashed, and back then it would have ended up someplace as junk.
This needed to be a MST3K short.
I was in that house as a child, I later heard that the demolition story was made up. And that it was air lifted by two helicopters and taken to Lake Arrowhead Ca. and belongs to a retired Monsanto executive.
If I had the money I would build this house for myself. Its stunning
It's one of the ideas they are testing now to replace water in the washing machines. The other is liquid carbon dioxide.
Does anyone know of a higher-quality version of this on YT? It's frustrating seeing it in only 240p.
i love how the woman loves and hugs the pole in the kitchen - it's sooo 50's.
So much obsession on "man made materials"... It is so interesting this extremist pendulum effect in our humanity: From seeking an absolutist "human made" techno-craze to "100% organic" naturalistic obsession. Are we ever gonna learn to be balanced and harmonic?
That whole house is recyclable.
@copyright1982 You are wrong, my friend! It's futuristic to have cabinets disappear and...take up as much space somewhere else, so...you need twice the space! And can't see what's in them. The future!!!
Amen to that!
is that the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago at 2:08? Wow, i would've loved to see that. That whole back area is a lagoon now.
I wish disney imagineering could bring this back to disneyland so my mom can see it again. But also for me to see it for the first time.
There should be a project to recreate all the old attractions in virtual reality.
back then, plastic was considered this wonder material that could be used to make anything, now plastic is considered to be cheap and low quality,
Actually, the house was torn down and was extremely difficult to dismantle. Apparently, nothing could demolish it and even the foundation exists there today as a planter.
Do your research.
I had no idea then that it was essentially product placement at Disneyland. Whoa!
And then Tex Avery had a shot at it....
This rather interesting to look at how these people in that timeline has presented the future.
At the end these people never had the chance to live in such fancy looking house..
If they had?, then our lives would have looked a bit different in design and lifestyle of housing development.
Now we are in a time of Ecomonic Crisis thats about to collapse.
Pity.
Any time someone comes up with an idea of "the future ____", it just comes out incredibly goofy and impractical. Who would want to live in a home like that?! Not many, I'll bet.
I have a theory that companies change as the people in charge die and get replaced. I think Monsanto may have been a lot less nasty, for lack of a better word, in the 50's.
Another example:
Eli Lilly and Co. Used to lower youth death counts from Influenza in the early 20th century. Now they just sell dubious and over-priced chemicals to dysfunctional families.
Some of the 'youtube enhancement' features may brighten this film up a little...
this house turned out to be very strong, when they tried to tear it down in 1967, they got out the wrecking ball, I am not kidding, it bounced off, they had to take it apart with blowtorches and chainsaws over a 2 week period
Golly jeepers - it's so dreamy ....
Disappointed there isn't a Mr. Handy, not even a cardboard (er plastic?) cutout!
nice but we took another path... not upgrading our house but the tech. The new houses have sharp edges with blocky designs and more straight plain colours
You would be shit out of luck scrounging for food in that kitchen if the power went out. And spices in huge dispensers like that just say spider eggs to me. I notice the woman having to puse every few moments to be sure the latches catch. I do like the separate pod for the kids however, Junior and Babs can kill each other in private.
Washing dishes by ultrasonic waves. lol.
Did they say one cold zone for "irradiated foods" I guess this was in the time when radiation would give you great skin, and they packed radium and radon in everything.