The Truck Yard and Barney Smith Toilet Art Museum opened in July in The Colony, Texas, and the entrance features 28 vintage, rusted cars poking out of the ground.
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A collection of 1,400 decorated toilet seats provide décor in the Truck Yard’s 2,500-square-foot private events space.
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The avenue of old car bodies provides a Stonehenge-like promenade down into the actual Truck Yard.
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Barney Smith decorated the more than a thousand toilet set lids, which includes themes such as drink swizzle sticks and Mardi Gras beads.
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Barney Smith’s first art piece featured whitetail buck antlers.
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The Toilet Seat Art Museum is attached to a 1,500-square-foot patio that overlooks the Truck Yard.
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The Toilet Seat Art Museum rolls with the punches, with the ceiling reminiscent of Sistine Chapel.
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Artist Barney Smith celebrated his 98th birthday at the new venue, a month before he died.
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The Toilet Seat Art Museum occupies the arch-windowed space that is connected to an outside bar-service area.
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Jason Boso, Truck Yard creator, said the event space has already been booked for birthday parties and reunions.
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The Truck Yard offers stationary bars for adult beverage service.
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The first Truck Yard opened in Dallas’ Lowest Greenville area in 2013.
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Various food trucks can drive and park on the property to provide rotating foodservice.
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Seating is provided at picnic tables and various portable chairs and tables. A music venue is at the far left.