Sprinfield, Illinois USA (No Longer At This Location)

As previously indicated early in its life this unit was featured at the Illinois State Fair; until now we had never seen a photo of the unit from that time. However William Bird aka Edge And Corner Wear recently posted a very cool photo to Flickr which shows this unit as it appeared «back in the day» at the «Illinois State Fair.»

The photo is of an advertising trade card and is undated though we have to assume it was at the very end of the 1960’s or the beginning of the 1970’s. As with many Fut

A while ago we were sent a link to a web page archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. We do not recall who sent us the link (let us know and we will credit you) but we do recall it was suggested that the photos on the page were of Richard Pisani’s Danvers Futuro House.

Pisani bought his Futuro in 1997 and, as reported in the New York Times on 072805, by 2004 Pisani had become one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Futuro House. Pisani set up the website Futuro-House.net which

During research into the Futuro located in Livingston, IL it became apparent that it had previously been located somewhere on Route 29 north of Springfield, Illinois. Now we know that it is no longer there but the «detective» in us was still interested in establishing precisely where it had been located. A Roadside America article quotes Jolynn Brubaker, who photographed the Futuro on Route 29, as follows:

«You can see it from IL-29 and if you pull over and stand up on your vehicle (or if you’r