History & Updates
Back in 2018 Paul sent us some information about this Futuros previous location on Heritage Lake near near Mackinaw, Illinois.
Recently Paul located the two photos seen below that show the Futuro in that location and he kindly scanned them and sent them over to us; thanks Paul.
During a recent road trip we were fortunate enough to be able to visit several Futuros; Carlisle, Covington and this one in Danvers. This brought the total number of Futuros we have visited in person to 15½.
Rich Pisani the owner was kind enough to take time out of his day to visit with us and to allow us to take a look at the interior of the Futuro; we cannot thank you enough Rich!
During our conversation with Rich we chatted about one of the issues Futuro owners have suffered from over the y
This photo was taken in 1998; it shows this Futuro on a flatbed making the move from Heritage Lake to Danvers. Very interesting to note the guy in the bucket truck having to lift wires out of the way so the Futuro could pass.
Our thanks to Pam Wassi for sending us this great photo.
Back on 021516 we added some photos from owner Rich Pisani’s Facebook to this page relating to the filming of footage for a music video using his Futuro as a backdrop. What we missed at the time was the awesome video below; nice footage of the Futuro and also great time lapse of a controlled burn. Musician Bog Bogaert describes it this way:
«Rockin’ out atop the IGHQ with the Johnson, 6-string and the mandolin. Time lapse vid of the controlled burn in yes March of 2012. The phone took a picture
Owner Rich Pisani has confirmed that his Futuro did indeed come from the Mackinaw, IL location discussed in the last update.
The «Myths and Legends» page carries details of reported Futuro locations that we have been unable to confirm. One such entry was for a report of a Futuro that used to be located «on a small lake near Mackinaw, Illinois». Recently Paul sent us an email in which he confirmed a Futuro at that location. Paul wrote:
«I can 100% confirm that there was indeed a Futuro house in the lake community (Heritage Lake) just outside of the town of Mackinaw IL. As a kid my family owned property at the lake and
In the 021516 update to this page we added some photos from owner Rich Pisani taken during a video shoot for Glenn Symmonds. At the time we had not found the actual video. Shortly afterwards Rich emailed us with the link to the video on Youtube. The video, for Glenn Symmonds track «I’m Missing You» is below. The Futuro shows up in the video several times starting at 3:16 and it also features in the credits. Thanks for the link Rich.
Facebook is pretty much the dominant «sharing medium» on Planet Earth these days and owner Rich Pisani shared the photos below showing before and after a fall 2015 «facelift» his Futuro received. The new paint job looks awesome. Rich I hope you do not mind me «extending» your sharing here; let me know if you do. Also from Rich’s Facebook are the photos below which were posted October 2015. Rich comments on the photos this way:
«Thanks goes out to Brother Bob Bogaert and local music legend Bill
Websites and webpages come and go and sometimes interesting pages can no longer be accessed. Case in point the photo galleries on futuro-house.net. However with the help of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine sometimes pages that have «gone the way of the dinosaur» are archived and can still be accessed. The photos at below are from a now defunct gallery on futuro-house.net titled «My Futuro». There were actually more photos but these are the only ones that seem to have been archived; thumbnail
Phil Patton of the New York Times wrote in a 072805 article that:
«Richard Pisani caught his first glimpse of a Futuro house beside a lake in Illinois in the early 1980’s, outlined against the setting sun. «I was just out cruising and there it was in some subdivision,» Mr. Pisani said, «like a prop from a sci-fi movie.»
Pisani saw the Futuro regularly over the next decade and more but the die was cast, a «seed» had been planted and it grew and flowered. In 1997 Pisani purchased the Futuro (re
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