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The Monsanto House of the Future was an attraction at Disneyland's Tomorrowland^[1] in Anaheim, California, USA, from 1957 to 1967.^[2] It offered a tour of a futuristic home, and was intended to demonstrate the versatility of modern plastics.^[3]

History[edit]

Sponsored by Monsanto Company, the House of the Future was made possible by Monsanto, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Walt Disney Imagineering.^[1] With this project, Monsanto wanted to demonstrate plastics' versatility as a high-quality, engineered material.^[4] The design team for this innovative structure included MIT architecture faculty Richard Hamilton and Marvin Goody (founders of Goody Clancy) and MIT civil engineering faculty Albert G. H. Dietz^[5] , Frank J. Heger, Jr. (a founder of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger) and Frederick J. McGarry. The MIT faculty worked with the Engineering Department of Monsanto's Plastics Division, including R. P. Whittier and M. F. Gigliotti. The house, featuring four symmetric wings cantilevered off a central core, was fabricated with glass-reinforced plastics.

The attraction offered a tour of a home of the future, featuring household appliances such as microwave ovens, which eventually became commonplace.^[6] The house saw over 435,000 visitors within the first six weeks of opening, and ultimately saw over 20 million visitors before being closed.^[7]

The house closed in 1967. The building was so sturdy that when demolition crews failed to demolish the house using wrecking balls, torches, chainsaws and jackhammers, the building was ultimately demolished using choker chains to crush it into smaller parts. The plastic structure was so strong that the half-inch steel bolts used to mount it to its foundation broke before the structure itself did.^[8]:6

The reinforced concrete foundation was never removed, and remains in its original location, now the Pixie Hollow, where it has been painted green and is used as a planter.^[9]

Rebirth[edit]

The House of the Future has had a significant impact on later design at Disney and Epcot.^[5][9] In February 2008, Disney announced it would conceptually bring back the attraction with a more modern and accessible interior. The $15 million Innoventions Dream Home was a collaboration of the Walt Disney Company, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, software maker LifeWare, and homebuilder Taylor Morrison.^[10]

In 2010, MIT Museum Architecture Curator Gary Van Zante gave a presentation on campus where he showed archived drawings and photographs of the plastic house. The talk, titled Back to the Future: A 1950s House of the Future, was part of the Cambridge Science Festival.^[11]

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References[edit]

1. ^ ^abGross, Daniel A. (2015). 'Plastic Town'. Distillations Magazine. 1 (3): 26–33. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
2. ^Phillips, Stephen (2004). 'Plastics: Monsanto Home of the Future'. In Colomina, Beatriz (ed.). Cold War hothouses inventing postwar culture, from cockpit to Playboy. New York, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 102-. ISBN9781568983028.
3. ^Strodder, Chris (2017). The Disneyland Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). Santa Monica Press. pp. 248–249. ISBN978-1595800909.
4. ^Gennawey, Sam (2014). The Disneyland Story: The Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of Walt Disney's Dream. Keen Communications. pp. 134–137. ISBN978-1-62809-012-3.
5. ^ ^abMannheim, Steve (2004). Walt Disney and the quest for community. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN978-0-7546-1974-1.
6. ^'Inside Monsanto's House of the Future, 1957'. Mental_Floss. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
7. ^'Living in the Monsanto House of the Future'. Disney Avenue. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
8. ^Weinstein, Dave. 'Plastic Fantastic Living Disneyland's spectacular 'Monsanto House of the Future' combined science, showmanship and dreams'. Eichler Network. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
9. ^ ^ab'Homage to the House of the Future'. Yesterland. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
10. ^Flaccus, Gillian (13 February 2008). 'Disney Revives 'House of the Future''. Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on 17 February 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
11. ^Marcott, Amy (30 April 2010). 'Houses: Make Mine Small, Modular, and Made of Plastic'. MIT Alumni Association.

External links[edit]

• Homes of the Future of the Past The pages listed on this list of links are partly not available anymore

Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden opened in 2009 at Disney World in Florida as part of the 16th Annual Epcot® International Flower & Garden Festival. It was near the entrance of the Mouse Gear gift shop in Future World.

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On March 21, 2009, an official ribbon cutting ceremony for Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden announced the new play area for children ages 2-5 and their families.

The Fairy Garden featured topiary replicas of Tinker Bell (the best friend of Peter Pan), Fawn (the Nature/Animal Fairy), Iridessa (the Light Fairy), Silvermist (the Water Fairy), and Rosetta (the Flower and Garden Fairy). Also dotting the gardens were the tools and treasures of the fairies as well as a tea kettle fairy house where Tinker Bell lived.

The opening tied in to the direct to DVD animated feature, “Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure” and later Disney fairy movies, the “Pixie Hollow” animated series, and subsequent spin-off movies.

During the ribbon cutting ceremony five young women playing the part of Tinker Bell and four of her fairy friends Fawn, Iridessa, Rosetta, Silvermist appeared to the crowd but did not talk, because they can’t speak outside of Pixie Hollow. However, after the opening ceremony Tink and her fellow fairies quietly played with the day’s honorary pixies.

“I promise to do my best to protect the environment and to always be green. And I also promise to honor Nature. And I believe in Never Land. And I believe in fairies.” — The Pixie Pledge (taken by honorary fairies)

Every day at 2 p.m. children are invited to dress in their favorite fanciful frocks and be part of a grand Fairy & Princess Processional through the colorful surroundings.

As visitors walked the lush grass pathway (ForeverLawn) through the Fairy Garden, they were reminded to clap their hands if they heard a baby laughing because that meant a baby fairy was being born; to flap their arms if they heard the sound of a bird; to move their arms forward as if swimming if they heard the sound of water; and if they heard a tiny little bell tinkling, to put one hand to their head and look to the left and right for a fairy.

In 2012, Tinker Bell and her fairy friends returned to the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival with an expanded Fairy Garden called Winter Woods that offered a white-and-green palette and new texture to Pixie Hollow with its evergreen forest. The Fairy Garden was still open as of 2014.

Along with the Fairy Garden, Disney provided children a chance to meet and greet with Tinker Bell and her fairy friends in person.

At Disneyland, a Pixie Hollow meet-and-greet area opened on October 28, 2008, near the Matterhorn bobsleds, where guests are able to interact with Tinker Bell and her companions.

On July 28, 2011, Tinkerbell and her fairy friends returned to the Magic Kingdom at Tinker Bell’s Magical Nook, located at the Adventureland Veranda. Tinkerbell, Vidia, Iridessa, Silvermist, Terence, Rosetta, Fawn, and Periwinkle (Tinkerbell’s sister) were on display. That attraction closed on May 20, 2014, but there is now a new meet and greet area for Tinker Bell minus her fairy friends located in Town Square Theater in Main Street USA.

NOTE: The Pixie Hollow franchise also inspired a popular Internet portal where visitors could interact with Tinker Bell and all of her friends – Fawn, Iridessa, Rosetta, Silvermist, Bess, Fira, Lily, Beck, Prilla, Rani, Vidia, Fairy Mary and Queen Clarion. Unfortunately, the online Pixie Hollow gaming site was closed on September 19, 2013.

Pixie Hollow is the secret world where Fairies live and work to create the four seasons to take to the Mainland. The four areas are called Spring Valley, Summer Glade, Autumn Forest and the Winter Woods.

The Pixie Dust Tree is at the heart of Pixie Hollow. It’s visible from everywhere and its roots spread across the entirety of Pixie Hollow. Queen Clarion lives in the Pixie Dust Tree, watching over the whole of Pixie Hollow.

In the original novel by James M. Barrie, Tinker Bell is a fairy and she uses fairy dust, not pixie dust. The transformation from Fairy to Pixie came about with the Disney animated film “Peter Pan” (1953). When Tink was upset, she called people, “Silly Ass!”

“Peter and Wendy” (1911) Chapter 3 COME AWAY, COME AWAY!

“It was a girl called Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage. She was slightly inclined to embonpoint [plump hourglass figure] .

A moment after the fairy’s entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in. He had carried Tinker Bell part of the way, and his hand was still messy with the fairy dust.

“Tinker Bell,” he called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, “Tink, where are you?” She was in a jug for the moment, and liking it extremely; she had never been in a jug before.

“Oh, do come out of that jug, and tell me, do you know where they put my shadow?”

The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells answered him. It is the fairy language. You ordinary children can never hear it, but if you were to hear it you would know that you had heard it once before.

Tink said that the shadow was in the big box. She meant the chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, scattering their contents to the floor with both hands, as kings toss ha’pence to the crowd. In a moment he had recovered his shadow, and in his delight he forgot that he had shut Tinker Bell up in the drawer.”

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Born in Philadelphia, Jerome Alphonse Holst worked 30 years as a librarian. He has since retired and lives in Thomasville, North Carolina. Mr. Holst is also the author of the children’s books “Norman the Troll,” 'Norman the Troll and the Haunted House,' and 'Gretchen and the Gremlins.' In addition, he penned the fantasy novel “The Adventures of Glinda Gale,” a retelling of “The Wizard of Oz' and the reference text “The Encyclopedia of Movie and TV Insults.” .

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