 It was built in the early 1960s as part of a pioneer town, a simulated Old West town set to be a tourist attraction/theme park.The house was modeled after Knott's Berry Farm bottlehouse in California.While on a world tour of Heineken factories in 1960, Alfred Heineken had an epiphany on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, where he saw many bottles littering the beach because the island had no economic means of returning the bottles to the bottling plants from which they had come.