In 1956, Houston postman Jeff McKissack began building with things he found on roadsides; 23 years later, those materials filled a strange 3,000-square-foot maze

Many people with day jobs dream of a side project. Jeff McKissack actually built his. The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, the Houston group that maintains the work today, says the Orange Show was built by the retired mail carrier, working alone. He worked on it from 1956 until its public opening in May 1979. The result was a 3,000-square-foot maze of tile, wheels and paint.

A mail carrier with a message