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Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
Eccentric folk art landmark constructed out of trash
Category Outsider Architecture
Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey was almost 60 years old when she began building the Bottle Village in 1956. The eccentric 1/3-acre lot in Simi Valley, CA is littered with sculptures and buildings built almost entirely out of discarded bottles and trash collected from the local landfill.
Prisbrey worked on the "village" for 25 years, well into her 80s, making new buildings to house her ever growing collection of art along the way. Thirteen buildings and 20 sculptures later, the Bottle Village is now a historic folk art landmark. Though Prisbrey died in 1988 and the village was badly damaged in a 1994 earthquake, much of it is still intact. It can be toured by appointment.
Obscura Day location: April 9, 2011.
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- Hours Call for appointment.
- Website http://home.roadrunner.com/~echomatic/bv/index.html Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey
- Address 4595 Cochran Street, Simi Valley, California, United States
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