The Bottle House at Calico Ghost Town
by Floyd Snyder
Title
The Bottle House at Calico Ghost Town
Artist
Floyd Snyder
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Photograph - Photograph
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The Bottle Houe at Calico Ghost Town by Floyd Snyder
Maybe the most unique building of all of the restored historic structures located in Calico Ghost Town.
The building is made almost entirely of old bottles. Bottles of all kinds include wine and whiskey. When looking inside the building through the windows you see the top of the bottles. Hundreds of bottles.
This building gives all news meaning of the saying; "Don't cast stones if you live in a glass house."
Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and today has been converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town.
Located off Interstate 15, it lies 3 miles (4.8 km) from Barstow and 3 miles from Yermo. Giant letters spelling CALICO can be seen on the Calico Peaks behind the ghost town from the freeway.
Walter Knott purchased Calico in the 1950s, architecturally restoring all but the five remaining original buildings to look as they did in the 1880s. Calico received California Historical Landmark #782, and in 2005 was proclaimed by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's Silver Rush Ghost Town.
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February 5th, 2019
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