Simi Valley is home to two California Historical Landmarks : '' ' NO. 939 9Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments ( Thematic ) – Grandma Prisbrey 's Bottle Village ' '' – This assemblage is one of California 's remarkable Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments . In 1956 , Tressa Prisbrey , then nearly sixty years old , started building a fanciful ' village ' of shrines , walkways , sculptures , and buildings from recycled items and discards from the local dump . She worked for 25 years creating one structure after another to house her collections . The Mosaic Walkway is embedded with thousands of treasures — tiles , shells , doorknobs , irons , car ornaments , jewelry , dishware , scissors , guns , toys — everything imaginable that creates a timestamp of 1950s post-consumer waste . Bottle Village originally had more than 13 buildings and 20 sculptures . Although severely damaged during the 1994 Northridge earthquake , it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 . It is located at 4595 Cochran St , Simi Valley
1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
Simi Valley, California