Simi Valley's Bottle Village

Blog: Steve Greenberg's Cartoons - Bottle Village

“Bottle Village in Simi Valley is an obscure folk-art marvel, akin to the Watts Towers: the creative handmade output of a single obsessed individual over the course of decades.

It was heavily damaged in the Northridge Earthquake, but when funds were made available for its restoration, Rep. Elton Gallegly sneeringly derailed the measure, along with Simi Valley city officials who considered it junk, trash or an eyesore. My wife and I visited recently (following a piece in the Star a week earlier), and while it is in sad shape, there is also much to marvel at. We were allowed in one structure, and the collection of embedded bottles in the walls looked like stained glass walls in some rustic cathedral.

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This local political cartoon made me chuckle in the sad cynical way that can only come via a political cartoon.

Bottle Village is a part of Simi's history, like it or not, and the city would do well to embrace it...

 

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