Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village

from Oddity Odysseys

In Simi Valley in 1946, at the age of 60, Tressa Prisbrey began construction of a home for her collection of over 17,000 pencils. Join Bethany and Drew of OddityOdysseys.com to discover one of “California’s hidden and forgotten secrets”: Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village.

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arcCA Digest is the journal of AIA California and the successor to its former print journal, arcCA (Architecture California). A compendium, arcCA Digest comprises invited articles, articles linked from sources we admire, and selections from the arcCA Archive. That archive can be browsed here.

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