Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch
California
Folk-art roadside attraction: 200+ 'bottle trees' and desert-scavenged curios built by the late Elmer Long along old Route 66; free, open sunrise-sunset, now tended by his son.
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Folk-art roadside attraction: 200+ 'bottle trees' and desert-scavenged curios built by the late Elmer Long along old Route 66; free, open sunrise-sunset, now tended by his son.
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