In 1928, a California garbage collector began building a one-room shack from trash; over 50 years, beer cans, car parts, driftwood and shells became an multi-level hillside home
The exterior of Nitt Witt Ridge and cans of food in a kitchen cabinet. Once, along California’s rugged Central Coast, there was still room for people who wanted to live differently. Away from polished streets and grand estates, the landscape attracted eccentrics, dreamers and determined outsiders who built their own worlds with whatever they could…
