0:00.0	Back to the future. I'm Rebecca Leibh. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.
0:19.4	The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were remarkable times in history. The United States and the Soviet
0:26.0	Union were having their race to space. And while the world's superpowers were pouring their
0:31.1	resources into conquering the universe, designers on earth were competing to create the most
0:35.8	ultra modern homes, using science fiction as their inspiration. When Neil Armstrong stepped
0:41.3	on the moon in 1969, the idea of a futuristic utopia did not seem far away. Enter the future
0:48.8	at home. Oh, man. You might know them. They look like spaceships. Yeah. They look like pod
0:55.5	homes. Very futuristic like the Jetsons. If you remember that. And I visited one. I've always
1:02.4	wanted to see one in person. Touch it. Try to climb inside it. And I did try. And we are talking
1:08.9	about the rise and fall of the future at home. I felt like we haven't done much in the way of
1:15.2	abandoned kind of weird history architecture. So if you could soften things up a little bit.
1:22.0	Yeah, that sounds great. And this is such a part of LA history, but it's also really interesting.
1:28.2	You got to visit one on the other side of the country. The future at home was a flying saucer
1:33.0	looking portable plastic house. They would measure between 13 feet high and 26 feet diameter.
1:38.8	Oval shaped windows. And the entryway was a single pull-down door that opens with the key.
1:44.9	The door descends and turns into stairs like an airplane. Inside the floor plan featured
1:50.1	accommodations around a central space that look like what you find in a spaceship that kind of
1:53.9	central hub. The chairs could not be kept upright during the day. And they were put down
1:58.8	at night for sleeping kind of like Murphy bed style. In the center there'd often be a fireplace
2:03.0	and depending on the model, there were amenities like a kitchenette, toilet, and dressing room,
2:07.7	or bedroom. Still a future house was not a place you would necessarily live permanently. So what
2:13.2	was this iconic piece of architecture's original purpose? All questions answered after a little break.
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