Greenwich, New Jersey, USA

This Futuro is on the move and about to get a whole lot of TLC.

The Futuro has been purchased and relocated; the photos below show a small part of the process of disassembly prior to removal from the location. The Futuro is going to undergo a major restoration effort and it will also be used to create molds as the basis for remanufacturing Futuros.

Original Futuros are few and far between and on the rare occasion they come to market they command high prices as rare and collectible things often

Preservation New Jersey describes itself this way:

«Founded in 1978, Preservation New Jersey is a statewide member-supported non-profit historic preservation organization. PNJ promotes the economic vitality, sustainability, and heritage of New Jersey’s diverse communities through advocacy and education.»

and it lists among its various programs the following:

«publishes the annual 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in NJ list, which draws attention to remarkable sites and to their many challen

There are several photos of this Futuro during its time on Morey’s Pier scattered across this website (among them several photos in the Seaside Heights article on the «Lost Souls» page and several items in our collection of «Things Futuro».

Several more surfaced recently when luketheidiotdunce sent us a link to a website we had not come across before, fredmahana.com. Several of the photos were very similar to the ones already on the site but the four below were a little different and so we thou

The video below was shot 092918 and posted to Youtube by SixBlindKids. It features some nice footage of this Futuro at the beginning. Our thanks to Joe (the dad) for sending us the link.

When we first saw this 12″ by 8″ 1978 photo we thought it showed this Futuro (or more accurately a small part of it) back in its days at Morey’s Pier in Wildwood, NJ and when we checked it against other photos of Morey’s Pier we were able to confirm that was the case so we added it to our collection of «Things Futuro».

The actual printed photo is cropped from the original source which can be seen in the second photo; in that photo at the far right a small part of a yellow and red structure can

Scott Peterson sent us a couple of recent photos of this Futuro; thanks Scott.

Drew Kidder sent us this photo which was taken 050816 so, despite indications that this Futuro was sold back in 2014, as of 050816 it is still in exactly the same location; either it did not sell after all or the new owner has not yet been able to relocate the unit. Thanks for the photo Drew.

The E-Bay listings for this unit have ended (as of 051114 15:28 PDT). The listings were ended a couple of days early (they were originally set to end 051314). The price of $26,900 is struck out and the indication is that a «Best offer price» was accepted; purely conjecture but presumably the offer was somewhere close to asking or the listings would not have been ended early. The Craig’s List listing is still active (as of the time of writing).

The Futuro House is something of a niche interest but every now and again it goes «mainstream» for a few days. The listing of the Greenwich unit on E-Bay precipitated such an event. A large portion of the internet seems to be comprised of «aggregators» that generate no original content but rather pick up (often by automated feed) and present articles and content from other sites and articles authored on one site can be repeated on dozens and sometimes hundreds of sites.

The Huffington Post amon

The price on E-Bay has been reduced to $29,900; on Craig’s List the price is still $39,000.

The original listing on Craig’s List has now been removed and replaced by a new listing with an asking price of $39,000 and the unit is also now on offer on E-Bay with a «buy it now» price of $32,900. It is also listed on E-Bay here in the category «eBay Motors | Cars & Trucks | Replica/Kit Makes» and here «eBay Motors | Other Vehicles & Trailers | RVs & Campers | Towable RVs & Campers | Travel Trailers.»

The price on this unit has been reduced — asking price is now $20,000.

It appears that this Futuro is for sale. It is currently advertised on Craig’s List for sale as a «Futuro Home Shell» for $25,000. It is actually something we might actually be able to consider at that price though of course then there would be who knows how much to spend on transport and restoration. Have to give it a little thought. If anyone is interested you can call Scott on (609) 501-6627 — please respects Scott’s privacy — serious inquiries only.

The video below is by «The Unknown Cameraman» — the footage appears to be a composite of footage from Vernissage TV showing the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Futuro, the Willingboro Futuro and this Futuro in Greenwich. The Greenwich footage starts at 02:13. At one point in the commentary the video indicates the footage has been taken at various points in New Jersey — clearly the Vermissage TV footage was not shot in New Jersey.

We ordered a copy of the October 2003 Issue of Weird N.J. (#21) the other day; we just received it today. On page 63 there is an interesting article with a couple of very cool pictures about the transport of this Futuro to its current location in Greenwich.

From the article we learn that the trip took place on 032703 with the Futuro travelling from Delmont in Maurice River Township to Greenwich via Bridgeton. We also read that the Futuro was purchased by Scott Gifford from Tom Platt for $1,500

It seems like the world of Futuros is a small one indeed. In all of the times we have read the Press Of Atlantic City article about Matt Damon’s purchase of the ex Morey’s Pier Futuro we have never noticed the following until now:

«The Greenwich Futuro is the second Damon has owned. The first one he bought in Colorado but had to sell at a loss when the economy went south more than a year ago.»

The article was published in 2009 so in theory that would put the sale of the one in Colorado somewhe

like, totally took the following two photos of this Futuro 073112.
The photos are displayed under CC 2.0.

This Futuro House spent it’s early years as an amusement ride at Morey’s Pier in Wildwood, New Jersey. We have no idea whether it went straight from manufacturing to the «pier» or if it «lived» somewhere else in between but with video available of it in action on the pier in 1974 it could certainly not have been that old at the time it arrived at Morey’s.

The current owner of the house is New York furniture dealer Matt Damon who purchased it for some $15,000 and as of the end of 2009 had spent