It all started with the 1939 worlds Fair with its theme of ‘the world of tomorrow’
The Fair’s influence on science fiction (and sci-fi parody), industrial, commercial, and urban design, and marketing resonates into the present.
I‘ve always been fascinated by the the concept and I absolutely love the graphic representation of it that permeated the 40s and especially the 50s. I have several books and magazines from the period which explore this.
Here is an example, probably my favourite cover. The Home of tomorrow!
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Used to think a domed city was so cool. If it was visible, I'd imagine it'd be claustrophobic for many of us.
Bannon even here (Biosphere 2) ...
The Biosphere 2 experiment ... it's as close as we've come to finding out what life under a big dome would be like.
Warehouse of tomorrow, 1937
Beautiful! I love how people thought we would be living by the year 2000. Retro- futuristic fantastic!
I was one of those. As a kid, I was an avid SF reader. I fully imagined that at my currently advanced age (64), I would have a spacesuit and a flying car. I really thought that there would be colonies on the Moon and Mars. Oh well ... maybe in the next life.
Monsanto House of the Future
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Monsanto House of the Future was an attraction at Disneyland's Tomorrowland in Anaheim, California, USA, from 1957 to 1967. It offered a tour of a futuristic home, and was intended to demonstrate the versatility of modern plastics.
Sponsored by Monsanto Company, the House of the Future was made possible by Monsanto, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Walt Disney Imagineering. With this project, Monsanto wanted to demonstrate plastics' versatility as a high-quality, engineered material The design team for this innovative structure included MIT architecture faculty Richard Hamilton and Marvin Goody (founders of Goody Clancy) and MIT civil engineering faculty Albert G. H. Dietz, Frank J. Heger, Jr. (a founder of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger) and Frederick J. McGarry. The MIT faculty worked with the Engineering Department of Monsanto's Plastics Division, including R. P. Whittier and M. F. Gigliotti. The house, featuring four symmetric wings cantilevered off a central core, was fabricated with glass-reinforced plastics.
The attraction offered a tour of a home of the future, featuring household appliances such as microwave ovens, which eventually became commonplace. The house saw over 435,000 visitors within the first six weeks of opening, and ultimately saw over 20 million visitors before being closed.
The house closed in 1967. The building was so sturdy that when demolition crews failed to demolish the house using wrecking balls, torches, chainsaws and jackhammers, the building was ultimately demolished using choker chains to crush it into smaller parts. The plastic structure was so strong that the half-inch steel bolts used to mount it to its foundation broke before the structure itself did.
The reinforced concrete foundation was never removed, and remains in its original location, now the Pixie Hollow, where it has been painted green and is used as a planter.
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I got to tour through the House Of The Future when I was a kid, either 1964 or 1965.
Remember really liking it, in spite of it not being a ride.
Another bit of history, long gone.
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Wait Monsanto? As in Agent Orange , DDT, genetically engineered crops etc?
The very same. Agent Orange. Plastic houses.
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It's like a GMO biscuit.
It's a great look. It does remind me of a segmented food item, like an orange
Living in a little slice of Battenberg cake
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It reminds me of the Tone King Galaxy amp and cab I just posted on Bill's guitar thread
Indeed.😊
Used to know who painted this, but ... have forgotten. Anyone know?
Even Santa has thought about it!
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The future was a long time ago.
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You’re a sucker for a double helicopter I see😉😎
Without question. 😊
21st century!(if only John Foxx could’ve had a song with that title!)
Good point. ;)
Radium Girl: Remember this?
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I certainly do!😯😎
These guys are partying like it’s 1999
Looks a bit like a tunnel to tomorrow.
Look, it's got Tomorrow in the title.......the Subs early singles and debut studio album, 'Another Kind of Blues' are classics.
I’ll allow it, just this once 😉
Thanks...you know it makes sense😉
Illustration by Arthur Radebaugh