Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village

Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village is tucked away in a small residential neighborhood of Simi Valley, California.

Grandma Tressa Prisbrey began building the Bottle Village in 1956, when she was sixty years old.

She needed a place to keep them.

Before she knew it, she had over one million bottles had hand.

And thats how Bottle Village was born.

But one million bottles is not easy to exhaust.

So she continued building.

All the buildings were linked together by colorful mosaic pathways.

Grandma Prisbrey also used car headlights, fluorescent tubes, TV sets and whatever else she found interesting.

When visitors came to Bottle Village, Grandma Prisbrey gave a tour of the place.

She charged less than a dollar a visit but people frequently gave her more.

Grandma Prisbrey continued to add new structures and tweak old ones for twenty five years.

She died in 1988.

In 1994, the Bottle Village was badly damaged by the Northridge earthquake which struck some eight miles away.

Bottle Village is now a recognized California Historical Landmark, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.