Monsanto's Plastic "Home of the Future" at Disneyland (1957)
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- Disneyland, Monsanto and a house made of plastic. What could possibly be a better combination? The new PRH series "Opening Days" kicks off with a look at The Monsanto House of the Future. Functioning as a walkthrough attraction, the house was meant to represent the future of home design. Utilizing plastic and other man-made materials as it's primary building components.
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Hope you guys enjoy the first installment of Opening Days! If you have any other topics you want to see covered, feel free to leave them here.
We're mainly looking for stuff at Disneyland within the 1955-1965 timeframe but might make an exception for something outside that. Thanks again for watching.
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Thanks so much for posting this item. I recall seeing this concept home in a magazine as a child and was fascinated with the styling. Interesting to note some of the design concepts in furniture, furnishings and fittings, that surfaced later in the decade, notably in the 60’s and into the 1970’s. I have assembled a modest collection of such items and even today, they inspire some fascination in our ability to create new and innovative products. On the downside, a common practice now, regarding building materials is the use of cladding on buildings to create unique exteriors to apartment buildings. While the designs are interesting, in recent years such materials, which may look impressive have caused catastrophic outcomes to people in apartments around the world in the form of fires. Changes now have hopefully brought about some clearer thinking on what is practical and safe to use in designing buildings, particularly those in which many of us now inhabit.
Park Ride History you could delve into the Flying Saucer attraction, even though that was the early 60’s rather than the 50’s or you could explore Autopia, but it’s still around, albeit in a completely different form, and the same could be said about other transportation around the resort, like the railroad, monorail and Main Street vehicles.
love at first sight
1950s: plastic
me: toilet paper
what is this? this is genius, don't ever want to live without it ever again.
1957 : Houses of the future will be made of plastic and UFO shape. 2020 : living in house built in 1957.
macroevolve this is so accurate mine was built in 1968 or 69’
It does look like 4 tic tacs shoved together. Maybe that's what the Navy pilots saw, a modular house being constructed.
@@johnwhitfield8150 mine was built in the 70s/80s - it's made out of styrofoam that keeps tearing apart and get chewed up. Oh how we devolved.
mine was built in the 40s. i want my ufo shaped house. :(
Better than having your house melt 😂 imagine a plastic house in Arizona... not a good idea
Honestly they should’ve closed it for a while and then used it as a time capsule. Like walking into the past kind of thing.
Like one of those that you bury and say 'don't open until year 3000." that would be cool
Yeah... That would be cool, plus id love to see what they would do now considering today's technology... Maby have this one and a new one beside it sorta like a "past meets the present future" idea that be cool... Quick... Someone call Disney!
Yes they are in such a hurry to get rid of the old things but they are history!
A little bit of Monsanto lives in us all now. It's so beautiful 💀
Thank you so much for posting this video. I'm transcribing my grandmother's vacation scrapbook. On Saturday, May 19, 1963, she writes, "I went through the plastic home while waiting for the children. Everything was really beautiful. Only the very rich could afford such a home." Now I can see what she experienced almost six decades ago!
"Only the very rich could afford such a home" - your granny is my hero.
That's awesome
That’s so cool. What an amazing treasure she left you.
Yeah, I'm 64, I saw it as a kid....kinda strange attraction...
@@alexzabala2154ait until you are 69 then you can make a lot of jokes about your age about how much you love 69 as much as your age
in the mountains of North Carolina, there were houses built during the 80s that were along this design. They were called “Rondelles” and they also have all the utilities in a cement core. We own one of these structures, and it is a real joy. It is roundish with eight sides, a long porch, a central room, two bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. The upper part is made of wood, not plastic, for which I am grateful. But the design is fundamentally the same and it is a very comfortable house to live in.
I've tried to look those homes up with no luck.
Awesome i am Jealous!
Yeah I remember one in my home town of Hot Springs
In southern Africa we call these buildings 'Rondavels'
"...atomically irradiated food."
Yum! Monsanto, you know me so well!
Classic Monsanto.
Cram? Blamco Mac and Cheese? Fancy Lads Snack Cakes?
I saw the plastic house in the early 1960’s. It was unique. Irradiated food has been experimented with over the years, but it was microwave radiation that, more or less, proved worthwhile. But, it was complicated and expensive.
@@SirBlackReeds I see what you did there lone wanderer
I know! That made me laugh!
Big mistake removing this house. It would fit in perfectly today.
It would be a bit hard though to keep retro fitting the home to a "new" future, as was stated in the video. The future of the past and our future wouldn't exactly be the same. So keeping the home would end up causing more problems and with it being plastic from the 50s, it could prove dangerous for the parks. Although I agree I would have liked it to stay myself.
However, Disney has used Innovations in the past to give us an idea of a futuristic home. I remember one time me and my mom and sister got to do a experience where we were in a white based projection room where the idea was the home could place you in whatever setting you want and so forth. Although this didn't last long. Then I believe around 2010s they updated Innovations again (before the official launch bay change) to give another idea of what a "home of the future" could look like, but I think it was met with mixed results. Most people would rather have a ride experience or meet and greet experience then a walk through attraction now a days.
...in my subdivision.
They only like shitty rides like winnie the pooh
Modular Homes are being built in Oakland, California... check it out...
@@calebproductions5970 Winnie the Pooh has lines out the door while this would've sat empty because its outdated so...
Just found this. What a blast from the past. I was raised in Central California. I toured this house in 1964 when I was in the fourth grade. My parents took the family to Anaheim to visit an Aunt and surprised us with a visit to Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm. The Monsanto house was impressive to a kid still hooked on the Jetsons. Thanks.
Same here
I walked through Knott's on the way home from Dysinger Grammar School. Through Buena Park Open Mall. to put pennies on the trolley tracks next to crescent.
@@user-rj1fm4iw6t yes. Let's not forget Bayer. I believe both companies together developed Roundup.
We live in parallel universi...lol..💛
Shout out to Central California!
It's ashame they had to tear it apart to remove it. How cool would it have been to be relocated for someone to use as a home!
Are just left it right there..
A home that gives you cancer. 1950s plastics.
@@MaxBrix I was going to write the same thing. Imagine this home in 90F weather, oh my.
Greg Taylor came here for same comment. Already seen absolute history’s post war home dangers.
Not only would the gasses give inhabitants cancer it’s so highly flammable it’s a death trap then add in the increased temps from global warming and baking in a 50s plastics house... no thanks.
Plus chemical dangers aside that house isn’t functional for living in. How are you going to use the kitchen when the motorized features crap out? Who’s going to fix them? What’s the cost of sustaining such features that aren’t common place in housing?
The Dymaxion house was a much sounder idea and came 20 years before this but even that didn’t catch on granted there’s deeper reasons behind that whole Dymaxion flop issue. Stupid dymaxion car and politics. We could all be living in space ship like homes 😑 that came in kits ready for assembly WITH SELF CLEANING BATHROOOOOOMS, a feature I didn’t hear mentioned in this house sooooooo pffft. Didn’t even have oscillating built in wall dressers a feature in the Dymaxion home now available in modern housing amenities through closet construction companies.
@@M335h1 I never heard of the Cymaxion home, I'll have to look that up here on YT, sounds very interesting. Self cleaning bathroom, hmmm. I'll go for that.👍
Plastic was something not widely used and I'm sure they thought they were on to something global, but with anything new, in time, you realize how functional something actually is.
On my walkthrough tour of this house, the eleven-year-old me reached over the rope and pushed the button on the bathroom sink, which went up and down just like in this film. I was impressed!
it's impressive. i'm 52 and if i saw that in someone's house, i'd be impressed. probably sit there and play with it for a while, see if it freaks out the cat
I was 11 years old in 1957 when I first toured the Monsanto house. I LOVED it and was so happy to think I would have a house like that someday. LOL. The floors curved seamlessly up into the walls and I remember thinking at the time, "Wow you could just hose out this place!"
Gotta hand it to Monsanto, they did get plastics in everything ... mostly microplastics, but still.
I guess your generation had lead and ours will have microplastics.
Do you remember the smell of it, if it had any? I couldn't help but wonder if that scented A/C was actually more than just a "nice to have". If everything (or most) in that house was made of some sort of plastics, the odor must have been overwhelming at least when it was brand-spanking new
One of my main priorities is "easy to clean" so yes, that's a good idea.
I love how oldtimers have swarmed youtube in the last few years to tell people about their memories
Today you can live in such style homes only on airbnb vacations in scandinavia for lots of money. Circular elecated ufo homes
@@Dayvit78 I don't like gaps and things for grime to accumulate in.
Let's not forget; Monsanto partnered with Dow Chemicals to create AGENT ORANGE.
And agent orange did exactly what it was intended to do. Defoliate a dense jungle. I'd say it was a success.
@@taylorbrown7456 my uncle went to Vietnam, 25 yrs later his arms looked all blotchy like Michael Jackson. ...it was fucked up he was told he wouldn't live too much longer but he out lived his two younger brother's. .....
@@taylorbrown7456 I feel ya....my blessings!!!!!!....and yeah eventually It killed him.....
And cancer causing Round-up, right? Or grocery store fruits and veggies whose harvestable seeds that dont grow. There's the soybeans that are resistant to round-up too, I almost forgot.
Yeah they actually destroyed a whole base town, and poisoned the people in it for over half a decade. Anniston, Al…my dad was from there.
10:10 I find it VERY funny that this "demonstration" house really was as indestructible as advertised, to the point Disney themselves had trouble actually demolishing it. So much for the stereotypes about demo models! :-)
Jason Blalock truth in advertising
this is not the answer i wanted to my question: 'can we recycle plastic into organic matter?'
what else can never be organic? how should we be optimistic? save the whale.
They should have just torched it and scrape up the molten plastic pool into a dumpster
Fuck Monsanto and Disney!!!
@@gurgy3 Wouldn't that be an environmental hazard?
I love 50’s futurism! I didn’t know about this attraction, can’t wait to see more!
looked like something out of Star Trek
Flight to the moon
@@kellyweingart3692 Yes! Definitely. I wish sometimes that there were houses like this to Air BnB in so we could see what it would have been like if that future happened.
@@amyfey3112 look up the ufo houses. Those are a trip.
Kevin K. That sounds awesome, I will have to check it out 😊
I went through this house when I was a kid. It was one of the most memorable things I saw in Tomorrowland.
Its so sad they got rid of it. I love stuff like this.
Agreed!
It actually was one of the reasons I eventually studied architecture
@@jackstrubbe7608 Yasss! Lol!
@@adamogilvie6951 reality is FLW wound up taking precedence. I spent time at Taliesin West, workshopping. But the Monsanto cantilevers started my interest.
I was just thinking the exact same thing! Why couldn't they have just moved it to another location and sell it to someone? I'm pretty sure that someone would have bought it. It would have been a cool place to live, I think.
I remember the smell of plastic, when it is new. I visited and also received a hardhat, summer 1957.
Jim Nagy cool, what else did you do at the park back then?
A hardhat! I would love one of those!
Inner space had a strong smell of fiberglas resin as well, especially during the beginning part with the giant snowflakes.
@@kidcat3000 Mister Toad's Wild Ride... After that experience, my driving habits were influenced, with heavy rights or sudden lefts... hold on... after all early life experiences shape future behavior. After all, I was 5 and not allowed to ride alone. I wanted the experience of driving those track cars.
African River Safari, Swiss Family tree house, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn's Riverboat... Teacups spinning...
@@JimmingtonSFO wow, seems like a lot of the park was built on classic books. Never knew. Today they hid all that with new Disney characters: Tarzan, Jungle Cruise to go with Indiana Jones, etc. Meets the PC culture of today.
It’s interesting that in the 50s plastic was considered luxury and beauty, while now it’s considered to be cheap and garbage. Indispensable or disposable. The fact that so much of our environment is polluted by micro plastic waste probably did not help its image in the long run.
Im sure some protesters would have tried to burn it down today . But true decades and decades of plastic products have killed and harmed a lot of ocean life birds etc …. but you knew or had an idea what it would turn out to be .
Plastic was never considered luxurious or particular beautiful. It was considered a miracle material, and it is. It obviously is. It's in everything from candy wrappers to your clothing, carpet, and television set. Plastic drastically reduced costs and made nearly everything available to everybody. In the 1920's, buckets were made from wood with two steel or iron bands around the planks to force the boards together to make it watertight. Could you IMAGINE having one of those now?
@@fuzzywzhe sure it'd be cool, hip and trendy to have a wood bucket
@@peterbiltxr379 It might be considered cool, hip, and trendy to HAVE a wooden bucket, but you sure wouldn't want to use one. They are heavy, they absorb whatever fluid is placed into them and can have an odor as a result, they cannot be sterilized.
Plastic really was the miracle material because it was so PRACTICAL.
People today take it for granted the way plastic has improved our standard of living.
I was a kid at this time and this house was my favourite thing in Disney. They should never have been removed.
disney and monsanto what a combo
I found it interesting a lot of the things came true like the flat screen tv and the doorbell camera. The items rising out of things were popular in the 80s I think? But the dishwasher in the cabinets seems like it would be a nightmare!
The fridge/freezer would make FAR more sense coming up out of the counter than dropping from above. Heat rises and cold sinks, you know. (actually seen that done before)
The dishwasher in the cabinets is popular in smaller condominiums in Europe, but smaller scale. Some kitchens use two smaller dishwasher, one with cleaned dishes, one with the dirty, which eliminates the need for dish storage cabinets. Finland kitchens usually have a drying cabinet for sink washed dishes to dry in. It may have a drain.
@@nomebear I didn't know that...great idea!
@Dennis Wilson Oh my! Yes I do remember that. It was over 10 years ago so the "smart phone" part I don't think was common but the washing machine in the kitchen was. I noticed in England and France that dryers were not common for the common people. Sorry, it my friends were simple people with no great means or high paying jobs.
Personally I would love to have my washer and dryer in my kitchen. I have to go outside then to my garage and it's cold and ALWAYS has spiders EWWW! HAHA! But if I were to sell or rent my home Americans would think I was out of my mind!
I was wondering if you know or have ever been to Japan and saw how they have their systems set up? That's much odder than any other ways I have seen so far.
@@susana5052 what you thought was just washers was probably combo units like they discussed. Every flat I’ve lived in has had a combination washer/dryer, which can do either/or/both functions. None of this connecting to the internet to know about electric prices though. (UK) My grandmother had such a combo unit from the ‘70s well until a few years ago, so they’re not a recent invention. They just hold a lot fewer clothes at once than the huge American units.
The House of the Future was one of my favorite attractions. I always had to walk through and marvel at the futuristic furniture.
born i 1960, but. we know, Monstano later sponsored a later Disneyland ride, the Inner Space one!
We lived not far from Disneyland, and my mom liked Danish Modern furniture, so our house looked not all that different, though without all the technology (other than a countertop-built-in blender). Those were the days of the "All Electric Gold Medallion" homes-- which ours wasn't but it was an option when we moved in and a lot of neighbors had it. We had a gas heating system, and unfortunately, an electric stove which mostly sucked.
This is an incredibly, well-designed, house. It is functional, very solid, and aesthetically pleasing inside and out.
And causes cancer... so, there is that.
And also built by monsanto, so you know they're up to some horrible stuff on the level of vault Tech from fallout, and the house would definitely give you cancer and probably some other really nasty diseases while it's at it
@@morbidmanmusic Monsanto is a cancer
They should make these now
@morbidmanmusic no it doesn't
And here we are 60 years later, trying to figure out how to curb our plastic addiction
how else can we wrap food and drinks? glass is too expensive and heavy and unsafe
@@alexm566 Bioplastics
1950s didn't care about the plastic. It was all new and shiny. But yeah so much plastic!
Especially when California voted the BIG LIE to get rid of the plastic shopping bag. Not only did they make it thicker but just to make you buy it. The plastic shopping bag is now worse than it ever was. Stupid Californians.
Work is being done for alternatives like hemp and other biodegradable vegetable materials..
I was there in December of 1966. The House the Future was one of my favorites, I walked through it and wanted to have a house like that myself one day (I was 13 at the time). Pity it was not saved!
Dec of 1966 was a great time for me ... I took my first breath of air. Great times
THEY SHOULD HAVE SOLD THAT HOUSE FOR A RESIDENCE
It would have had to be designed to move. Or built out side disneyland. But I wish it was not just one show house. But a plastic modular house boat community.
It would have killed anyone who lived in it. Cancer causing plastic.
@@morbidmanmusic lol your understanding of plastics sucks.
I imagine the cost of moving it would have been prohibitively expensive.
Great shades of the Jetsons!
We went through this home in 1960 and it was amazing I was 12 and my sister was 5. I wanted to live in it and still do today! I didn't know they tore it down instead of moving it to another place or selling it to a private party. That wasn't such a smart decision. It would be educational in today's market. I love Disneyland... and miss not visiting it anymore. Thank you for the film of our past ... Blessings.
"Monsanto's house of horrors" would be a pretty educational ride... super evil company.
Whenever I see this home I really want to go back in time to visit it!
Such a cool design ☺
I want one..
I'd love to live in that house. I'm not sure how safe it would be in a fire. The vision of hopeful optimism from that era is sorely needed now more than ever.
I think I want to agree with you!
The design of the house was genius. And the smiles on the faces of the actors in the early promotionals, also seemed to be made of "plastic".
The update version of this attraction was literally my FAVORITE Disney experience as a kid in the 70s. I was lucky enough to be able to go every summer. I would bypass the space mountain ride to access this home. I was mesmerized and couldn’t fill my eyes and imagination enough ! Thx for the memory! ☺️
Would love to live in it :) In general that late 50's / early 60's architecture and style was so attractive and functional... Always reminds me of the beautiful homes that my parents generation built or lived in at that time...
Must be VERY rich to go every summer!
@@nathanvanmiddlesworthmedia844 NO! That’s a complete fallacy! I was an only child to a single working mother who got no child support. We lived a very sparse blue collar life. But… mom was a Disney FREAK! She scrimped and saved all year just to make that drive down to Florida from Detroit to spend two weeks of the year away from the dreadful city environment. Thx, Mom! 🥰
70's? It was removed in 1967.
@@trekkiejunk that’s why I specified the UPDATED version which was actually moved to Disney WORLD in Florida. It followed the same basic concept and was a feature that you were led through while exiting Space Mountain which, at the time, was the big E attraction of the park. I didn’t care about the roller coaster! I just wanted to see the futuristic house! 😁
The fact that the foundation of the home of tomorrow ultimately became a planter is the capper. Great presentation! 👏😎 I learned a lot.
Mmm, gotta love that atomically irradiated food at the ready in the kitchen. How convienient!!
I could be wrong, but I THINK there was a microwave oven in the kitchen.
You DO get irradiated food, its just done elsewhere besides your kitchen. :p www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irradiation-what-you-need-know
@@redwolfexr Yeah. Have you noticed that milk doesn't spoil like it used to?
@@gg5115 not at all; but then I’m from the UK and I found it unnerving how your bread lasts for weeks without growing mould, too.
But then it at least explained why the bread I’d been eating on that trip had tasted kind of flat compared to what I was used to. Even standard mass produced bland white bread here has a little extra depth to it.
But with regards to milk here, it only lasts 3 days once opened (but can last a week or two if unopened due to being pasteurised). If you buy specially filtered milk it’ll last a week after opening instead, but has similar use-by date timings.
That reminds me, how you don’t have any Federal use-by standards, they’re done by the states with no standard for what they show, or something? I’m so accustomed to knowing that “use-by” and “best before” mean specific and different things.
That was a bit of a ramble: I digress.
I went through this in 1959 with my grandparents. 💗
I think it would have been interesting to see just how long it would have held up, somewhere else. And yes it should have been made into a museum.
If each wing was 16 sq ft. then that would make each wing only 4 ft by 4 ft, only about the size of a Closet! I think you meant each wing was 16ft.by 16 ft (or 256 sq ft, which would make the house a quite livable 1300 sq ft total or so
You're absolutely right, my mistake there. I do believe each wing was 256 sq ft on it's own (since that was also the size of it's foundation, only makes sense to keep them proportional).
I think the full house, or at least the project area itself, totaled out to around 1,280 square feet. So those numbers seem pretty accurate. Thanks for pointing that out.
Park Ride History *its
@@DaveTexas - For some reason, I always get autocorrect on 'its'. It drives me nuts. But, I'm sort of a grammar Nazi on myself.
The average house sq footage was small compared to today's average house. More compartmentalized, no walk in closets and kids shared a bedroom. Now everyone has so much junk and lives separate lives - watching TV in their own rooms.
It WAS very small. That was my main impression in 1960.
Beautifully written, produced and edited. Especially loved your narrator's casual-yet-professional delivery... all too rare in this type of Disney park reportage. My congratulations!
Makes me want to live in 1957. Did you notice how slim and fit everyone was? Monsanto seems to have changed that as well.
Ha yeah, with the advent of corn syrup to sweeten everything. Of course that's Monsanto corn...
It was the government subsidy of corn in the farm bill. Paying people to grow food we didn’t need, so they found a new use for it.
It would be interesting to see someone reconstruct the house but make it out of environmentally sustainable materials! Otherwise it’s a very interesting video! Thanks for posting it!👍🏾
plastic is recyclable
@@TreeLBollingTreeMan Not really, only 5% of it is reused. 95% of all plastic ends up in the landfill or littering our streets or waterways. To be considered "recyclable" you have to hit a 30% threshold, and no plastic has ever come close to that number. The recycling process is super expensive. You have to pay to sort, ship to recycle plants, clean, shred, melt down, and re form, so the vast majority just gets sent to the landfill. We need a total ban on petroleum based containers. There are fully biodegradable alternatives but companies choose the cheap route, since they can.
"Environmentally sustainable materials", you mean like wood?
Seems like the perfect home design for places that get hit by hurricanes.
I said the same thing :) "That's what they need to rebuild around Hurricane Katrina's area (and any rebuild zone) - a house that can't be bulldozed nor wrecked nor have a removable base. I love it! I'll build one myself if I live there - only house that stands :)"
This would be a terrible hurricane home. Debris would rip right through those giant windows on all sides without any safe zone for you to shelter in.
it'd be a bitch in a fire though
Best Disney attraction ever. Aside from plastics, the utilities in a central core design of The House of the Future (1957) was in part taken from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House (1930). The 1946 redesign of Dymaxion House is in the Ford Museum.
I totally love it! Honestly.
I first toured this attraction in June, 1965 at age 9. I remember being bored and wanting to ride the rides instead.
Im curious if it would melt in a heat wave or at the verry least get so hot inside. Side note those 50's dresses are beautiful
cybercats Well, it survived the California sun for a decade without any real sign of wear so I would wager that it would hold up well. It was quite insulated and climate controlled so interior heat wasn’t an issue.
@@ChaseOfBass_ i figured i live in California near disney and just know it's like hell here sometimes😂
cybercats I want one!! 😃
It would melt here in Phoenix in the summer🥵. Very cool house!!!
@@diannemc4840 I doubt it would melt. Of course your post may be a joke, but if it's made out of a material similar to HDPE, which is what they make a lot of playground slides out of, it wouldn't melt until it was between 248 and 356 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm not sure what type of plastic they made the shell out of, but I'm sure it could withstand normal heat. It definitely wasn't made of PEEK, which is another type of thermodynamic plastic invented in the 80s, but if they made it out of that now, it would have a melting point of 649.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Although, I have no idea if PEEK would be a good material for a house or not. It probably would be since they use it for engineering purposes and it's very mechanically and chemically resistant, so maybe.
Actually the first production flat-panel display was the Aiken tube, developed in the early 1950s and produced in limited numbers it was around but wasn’t practicing mass production
When do I move in? I want a future that looks as cool as mid-century futurism.
I love Retro-Futurism. Yesterdays future was so much better than the future we got.
Ew, you want to breathe all the chemicals I’m sure that house was leeching into the air? Or drink them from your groundwater?
I first went to Disneyland in 1965. My parents and I agreed-Monsanto’s Journey Through Inner Space was the best attraction there.
It's interesting how the flat panel tv still has the look of an old crt.
Just a heads up! HOWARD JOHNSON ANAHEIM is making room themed on this house.
How about an episode dedicated to the 20,000 thousand leagues under the sea walk through. I remembered As a kid how the giant squid terrified me. Thanks.
I wonder how a house like that would hold up in a cold climate, I like it and would love to have one on my property today.
I'd live in that house in a heartbeat. But then I was born as it was being torn down, so I'm not that far removed from that era. Still, it's a lovely thing.
I really miss the "America The Beautiful" attraction!
I went through it in 1965. It was very different!
I personally love natural materials, so much i decided to only live in vintage interiors. There's ceramic artwork on the walls, cabins, dressers all in teak wood, real chromed iron. Everything mostly of the 60s and 70s. Pots & pans, towels, washing gear, clothing which is 100% cotton. It's great to come home when having spent the day elsewhere and have a natural odor hanging around, especially after cooking... it's like those times never left. I don't like plastic all too much. Cool video, armchair traveling through the past.
Since you teased it, my vote for the next video would be the Hall of Chemistry especially since I know nothing about it and enjoy chemistry. Second to that, Aluminum Hall of Fame would be a good choice as well, although there are some interesting opening day frontier land attractions too from what I recall.
I concur with Eric ^^^
You've got to love retro-futurism. There's this optimism about it that unfortunately never really came to pass.
As a southern California kid born in 1953 Disneyland was an annual event. I remember seeing that plastic house and thinking when I owned my own house I wanted one just like that. It seemed like it was almost as good as a tree house and I was going to have it surrounded by a moat and the stairs would crank up. That was just a little kid fantasy but actually I'd still like that.
I can only imagine how flammable this house, and everything in it was.
I grew up in southern California and went to Disneyland every year until the eighties. I never knew there was a Hall of Chemistry! The only went through the House of Tomorrow a few years before it disappeared. Now I live over 500 miles away and probably won't see Disneyland again. Thank you for posting this nostalgic treat.
Disneyland is now so crowded you can barely move. Lines for the rides are horrendous...even for the less desirable "C" ticket rides. You have to order your Dole Whip on an app on your phone. I'm a dinosaur....I have no cell phone! 🤣 Last time we went was before covid. Parking was $45 a day. It's just not worth going. Disneyland in the 60's & 70's was nice. Oh well. 🤷🏽
Picture this: This home of the future design now, but made of reclaimed/recycled materials. I dig it tbh, I would totally live in an indestructible plastic house.
Chinese drywall
@@msg472 Unlikely.
I was in that house in 1961!....it was just as shown!...Great memories, of days gone by!....😢
Plastic is fantastic❤
This attraction is one of my earliest memories I have of my first time to Disneyland.
Loved it! I was a small kid when this exhibit opened, and we went to Disneyland every year. I saw my first push-button phone (without a dial!) inside this house! Missed this exhibit when they tore it down.
And yet we still "dial" a number, not to mention "pick up" and "hang up"
@@Imnotplayinganymore - Good point!
I'd have gone insane waiting for all those motorized cabinets to open
I was there then ,Shook hands with Walt. What a Great time to be Alive. People had Class . No bums.
I’m sad they tore it down and didn’t just move it.... or make it part of the 33 club and let guests stay in it.
It’s interesting how many things they got right!
I got to see the Home of the Future when I was in 4th grade. I *loved* it then, and it still holds a special place in my heart.
Every time I visited Disneyland, I went through Monsanto’s Plastic "Home of the Future" I really enjoyed it. I always dreamed that when I became a millionaire, I would build one of my own. I still have the brochure. Great memories. Thanks
8:01 - Predicted the video doorbell??
Excellent. I loved the Hidden Mickey's in the curtains at time 6:54. :)
If ya saw em, they were not hidden.
Hiding cabinet fixtures are cute until they break down while hiding!
It's interesting how much they got right. The kitchen is seen as the center of the home today. With the "open concept" being very popular, it it puts a big focus on the kitchen.
The use of "container homes" could be seen in the shape. The ability to add parts to the home like Legos.
The home even had a Ring.
I'll have you know my home IS made of plastic thank you very much!
Put up a video to prove it!
Fiberglass perhaps?
A lot of houses today are covered in vinyl siding and the tear-off roof has a high petroleum content. Carpets are acrylic, flooring is vinyl tiles or linoleum, foam insulation, and PEX water lines.
@@Phrancis5 Forgot the OSB board with all that glue in it. Yes, and they're well sealed. Almost need a really good air purifier. At least for the first 2yrs or so while they off gas. I got sick everytime I stayed over night in my son's new house
I’m excited for this new series, a lot of potential
I remember being brought to this by my parents when I was 6 or 7, bored out of my mind as they toured it, wanting only to go on Real Rides. Like with so much, now that I'm old enough to appreciate it, it's gone.
The Monsanto House of the Future was my favorite ride. I loved that ride from 1957 (am from Southern California) and was disappointed when it was torn down. I would go on it every time I went to Disneyland. I always wanted a home like the house of the future!!!
I LOVE this! Hardly anyone I am friends with knows what Disneyland used to be like. I even have some of the ticket books left minus the E-tickets of course. I must be getting old! If you can afford to go there now, it’s completely changed. The prices are ridiculous! I don’t know how a family of four can get in (unless you mortgage your house!).
This was so far ahead of it's time! If a builder were to build an entire subdivision of these, they could use all recycled plastic and put solar panels on it which would make them eco friendly. Imagine how much plastic would be kept out of our oceans with the construction of just 50 of these houses.
"Fire hazard!" My Architecture professors, when the class asked why we don't do stuff like that, anymore. A sort of a Plastic Pompei would result from it melting onto occupants trapping them in molten mummification. Freaking molten mummy plastic Pompeicians!Nobody ever let's us have any fun!
I remember going to this attraction at Disneyland..I loved it..esp the "picture phone" where you could see who was calling you. We went to Disneyland every year since 1959 until th 1990's.
Noticed music " It's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" at the conclusion of Disney narration. Could you cover the People Mover at Disneyland? Such a shame it is gone.
Do you remember the original song at the Carousel of Progress? "Now is the time, now is the best time, now is the best time of your life."
Dwight Turner absolutely. I visited Disney World for the first time in the early 70’s. Only the Magic kingdom then. Then visited each new park as they opened. Treasure the memories of old school attractions long gone. And we didn’t even live in Florida!
its too bad that Disney, as a future thinker, didn't think to set up a museum nearby to collect the outdated rides and buildings (that would fit :-)). Would love to go and see what was there when it originally opened. I didn't start going until around 1978. I remember the tickets (E tickets were the best). but they went away shortly after I started going.
My mom still talks about visiting this as a child when she went to Disneyland. She just thought it was the most amazing thing. I would love to have seen it.
I do hate today's Monsanto, but just love the House of the Future
Happy late Valentine's Day Park Ride History! ❤
The ultimate version of a true MCM house. They should've kept it.
I would live in this home now. I was born in 87 but the 50's, 60's and seventies style is my favorite. All of my furniture is from these eras and my new house I'm building will have a conversation pit and other retro themed spots.
It would be awesome to see an updated version of the plastic house. But I find it interesting about the wrecking ball bouncing off it and not doing any damage!
I’m so sad that they got rid of it. I wanted to see it
Really awesome video Jack! Love the open days series idea! A new house of the future should be erected on the old foundation, but instead of plastic they should use kale! Long live kale!
Interesting concept model of the pre-fab home. Thank you for putting this video together.
So many dots connected with this! Thank you!
Enjoyed this very much! I went through the house in Summer of 1965 and found it to be very “modern” for the time. There was still considerable numbers of people going through it at the time. I do remember a model of a telephone that you could see the person that you were talking to, but it was just a black and white paper photo on the screen. Thanks for posting this!
All that's missing is the salesman from Vault-Tec!
It was very futurist for it's time, especially the shape of the Monsanto House.