History & Updates
We recently came across this nice little bit of drone footage of this Futuro; the footage was posted to Instagram 043020 by James Avera (James’ original post can be found here).
Owner Pearl Clarkin recently posted this video to her Facebook Page; seems like the Futuro has a few issues and there is a little repair work planned.
Florida based daily morning paper the Pensacola News Journal traces its heritage back to 1889 according to Wikipedia. The 072871 issue includes an interesting article on this Futuro House.
The article provides general Futuro background and information along with a little interesting history in respect of this particular Futuro.
First the article confirms that the Futuro arrived on Panferio Drive prior to 072871. We have previously thought that it was likely this Futuro had always been located
Florida based daily morning newspaper the Pensacola News Journal traces its heritage back to 1889 according to Wikipedia. The 120205 issue includes an article on this Futuro and its owner Victoria Clarkin.
The article reports that once hurricane related repairs were completed Clarkin would be converting the Futuro into a museum for the Pensacola Beach Preservation and Historic Society (the Futuro survived Hurricane Ivan in 2004 among others over the years).
The article indicates that the Futur
This 3½» square photo that we recently added to our collection of «Things Futuro» shows the interior of this unit. Though the photo is clearly of some age there is no indication of when it was taken (or who the folks in the photo are).
These two vintage «Polaroids», added to our collection of «Things Futuro» recently, show this Futuro «back in the day». Though undated they almost certainly show the Futuro early in its life as both of the photos show a lot of aging and are clearly many years old.
Though both have the marking «Polaroid» it is unclear if that refers to Polaroid film or to them actually being shot using a Polaroid camera; they do not look like the images we recall shooting with a Polaroid camera in our youth but
As evidenced by this photo posted to Instagram by downtownpensacola it seems that you can purchase souvenir cups featuring an image of this Futuro; presumably a souvenir shop in the area.
If anyone happens to know the name and address of this establishment (or any other that might sell these cups) we would really appreciate it if you would let us know; be nice to add one to our collection of «Things Futuro». We can be contacted directly by email or via our Contact Form
Ting Na Wang, who has made several contributions to these pages, sent us a link to the photo below. The photo was posted to Instagram by stroutsy. The photo is undated but is clearly of some age as it shows the Futuro being placed at its current location (and in addition, to us at least, it looks mighty like an old Polaroid photo).
At the time the Futuro was a different color (an orange color very reminiscent of Idyllwild and old photos of Futuro #001 in Hirvensalmi) to the off white the unit c
We came across this video the other day. It was uploaded to Youtube by Kyle Owens 092014. The video is a time lapse that condenses the eight hours of construction of a model of this Futuro using cardboard and cans into a little over 4 minutes.
The model was constructed 091914 at the Artel Gallery in Pensacola, Florida as part of a charity effort. In a post on the Artel Gallery Facebook Page the Gallery writes that:
«Artel is excited to once again be a part of Canstruction! Hardworking members
Ken Ratcliff recently posted the two photographs below to Flickr (here and here). The photographs are published under CC 2.0 and Ken has also kindly agreed to let us use them here — thanks Ken. The photos were taken 110813 and for us there are two interesting observations to be made.
The first is that the close up shot shows that the condition of this unit is not quite as perfect as it appears in some shots. While some older shots do show this to some extent we have not before seen a shot that
R.W. Sinclair snapped the photo below on what looks like a dark and stormy day in Florida confirming this Futuro remains on site as of 070513. The photo was posted to Flickr under CC 2.0.
In the Winter 2007 issue of CA Modern Magazine there is an article about Wayne Donaldson’s Idyllwild Futuro. Also in ths article we hear from Victoria Clarkin, owner of the Pensacola Beach Futuro.
Clarkin says that after spending her high school graduation weekend at the Futuro she «… knew the spaceship was going to own me one day». Victoria and husband Mark use the Futuro as a beach house and it also serves as headquarters for the Pensacola Beach Preservation & Historical Society.
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