Bottle Cap Valhalla: The Bottle Cap Inn

Joe Wiser's Bottle Cap Inn in Miami was featured in Ripley's Believe It Or Not,
but more importantly it was a triumph of an obsessive personal vision. Fortunately, many interior views were preserved in a series of postcards

Miami's Bottle Cap Inn, before an addition on the right side	The Bottle Cap Inn in all its colored glory	The table-and-chairs shot is one of the oddball conventions of commercial postcards. Did they really expect anyone to say, "Get a load of those tables, we've got to eat there!" But check out that ceiling and the light fixtures in this one
A color shot of the Bottle Cap Inn's interior. The Pizza Pie image is a fine bit of abstraction	Another bar view. One imagines this is earlier	The Bar at the Bottle Cap Inn.
At some point Ruth took over the Inn		All those bottle caps, and this pair too
		Most of the postcards only claim "more than a million" bottle caps vs. this one's four
		The piano is a centerpiece of the bar, nicely framed by the circular patterns on either side
	Ever the coat tree is encrusted with bottle caps
An ultra-classy place for what appears to be a celebrity photo. I'd like to think it could be a young Rowen & Martin Laugh Inn Dick Martin, but who knows.	The other Bottle Cap Inn in Key West. One imagines it was connected to Joe Wiser's establishment in Miami, but I haven't come across any evidence either way.

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