Houston's famed Beer Can House will undergo a much-needed rennovation thanks to a $125,000 grant from the city to the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, owners of the property. John Milkovisch, a retired employee of Southern Pacific Railroad, began decorating in 1968. From Roadside America:
Beer cans quickly became John's exclusive medium — a convenient one, since John drank a lot of beer. He worked on the house for the next 18 years, incorporating a six-pack a day into its adornment — roughly 39,000 cans. He linked pull-tabs into long streamers to make curtains that chimed when the wind blew. "This curtain idea is just one of those dreams in the back of my noodle," he explained at the time."John thought beer cured everything," explained Mary, his wife, after John had died (in 1988).
Link to Houston Chronicle article about the restoration
