223:, the Arisses bought several lots on Huckleberry Hill in Monterey and built a small studio-house. This evolved over the next fifty years, mostly with scrap and donated materials, into a three-story 20-plus room dwelling to meet their changing preferences and the growing needs of their five children. Ariss claimed that John Steinbeck referred to the house as a "Triumph over Architecture". It burned to the ground in 1990. "I got mad at the insurance company," he said. "I paid $ 80 a year for years, then they raised the rate to $ 800. I bought a lot of fire extinguishers and smoke alarms instead…I guess it didn’t work". At age 80, Ariss designed and rebuilt, with help from many friends, "Triumph over Architecture II," which is currently occupied by his daughter, Holly Shoats, and her spouse Al.
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In 1989, Ariss designed a five-year mural project for a walkway in
Cannery Row. He and a group of about fifty young artists painted 52 eight-foot mural sections. In 1998, the murals had faded badly and a majority of the murals were refurbished, mostly by the original artists. The walkway is now named
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Ariss also painted a number of storefronts, many for the 1949 centennial, including those for
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386:. The theater burned down on New Year's Eve, 1959. Years later, Ariss and Di Girolamo built a new theater on the wharf, now officially named the "Bruce Ariss Wharf Theater". Ariss also did the cover and illustrations of Vincent DiGirolamo's 1990 book
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