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Title
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1961
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, located at 4595 Cochran Street in Simi Valley was built by Tressa 'Grandma' Prisbrey who began construction on her one-third acre lot in 1956 when she was sixty-years-old. She began building so that she would have a place to house her collection of 17,000 commemorative pencils and continued building for another 25 years using recycled bottles and other materials found at a local dump. The end result was a whimsical village of wishing wells, mosaic walkways, fountains, shrines, and 15 structures, including the 'Round House,' 'Dolls Head Shrine', and the 'Leaning Tower of Bottle Village.' Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and in 1981 was declared California Historical Landmark No. 939.
Undated photograph shows the 'Round House,' one of fifteen structures that make up Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village located at 4595 Cochran Street in Simi Valley. The 'Round House' contains more than thirteen thousand bottles and six hundred pounds of broken glass on the roof.; See images #00136074 through #00136079 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00136074
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d042_f35_i24
CARL0005631997
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/66860
Subject
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
Bottles--California--Simi Valley
Bottles in art
Mosaics--California--Simi Valley
Pavements, Mosaic--California--Simi Valley
Folk art--California--Simi Valley
Buildings--California--Simi Valley
Historic buildings--California--Simi Valley
California Historical Landmarks
Simi Valley (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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