Jim Rouse Visionary Center
Three Enchanting Floors
Space description
1st floor Visionary Village
2nd floor conference room
2nd floor conference room
jrvc + SCULPTURE BARN
Have your ceremony or cocktail hour in the Sculpture Barn and Wildflower Garden, followed by your reception in the JRVC Banquet Room.
1st floor
Host cocktails here for an additional fee, and have your ceremony on the 3rd floor Banquent Room or Sculpture Barn.
add-on/package
RATES
Space | Mon-Wed | Thu | Fri & Sun* | Sat |
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* The Sundays before Memorial Day and Labor Day are at the Saturday rate.
(1903–1972) & (1913–1980
Calvin and Ruby Black
Calvin and Ruby Black began building the Possum Trot Shop and Fantasy Doll Show in 1954 as an attraction to lure tourists off the main highways and to their small rock shop in Possum Trot, California, in the Mojave Desert. Possum Trot fast became the couple's artistic obsession.
Calvin ultimately carved over 80 dolls, each representing someone important in his life. Ruby made clothes for each doll. Calvin also built the "Bird Cage Theater" to install doll players that performed and sang in voices recorded by the husband and wife. Their animated displays were designed to attract as well as entertain visitors. Outside the shop, wind-powered dolls animated the home and attraction while alerting motorists that something awfully specially was happening inside.
Famed husband and wife filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf became enchanted with the Blacks and their one-of-a-kind, homemade, roadside marvel, and lucky for us, documented Possum Trot at the zenith of its gloried existence.
To learn more about Calvin & Ruby Black & Possum Trot, visit: http://www.spacesarchives.org/explore/collection/environment/possum-trot/
