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Watts Towers may get LACMA as a guardianThe towers, topping out at just under 100 feet high, were created single-handedly by Simon Rodia, an uneducated Italian immigrant stonemason who built them ...
Muralist, teacher and activist Michael Massenburg, 62, top, with Patrick Taylor, 29, left, and Allyson Dixon-Duarte, 20, restore the John Outterbridge mural at the Watts Towers Arts Center Campus.
It took Italian immigrant Simon “Sam” Rodia more than 25 years to build the Watts Towers, starting work on the massive, one-of-a-kind structure in 1921. The city later protested.
Rodia's towers soon became a point of pride in a Watts, a neighborhood often associated with poverty and crime. Even in the Watts riots of the 1960s, Rodia's towers were untouched.
It took Italian immigrant Simon “Sam” Rodia more than 25 years to build the Watts Towers, starting work on the massive, one-of-a-kind structure in 1921. The city later protested.
The Watts Towers are one of LA’s most famous landmarks. The sculptures were handmade by an Italian immigrant, Simon Rodia, from 1921 until 1954. He worked by day at a tile-making factory in Malibu.
How do you respond to the Watts Towers? L.A.'s art community and the Watts community have faced that quandary ever since 1954, when Rodia deeded his masterpiece to a neighbor and left for good.
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the Watts Towers of Los Angeles are endangered. The city, facing budget shortfalls, has cut the three workers assigned to maintain the towers, which, at ...
The Watts Towers rise above homes in the South Central Los Angeles community of Watts. The hand-sculpted structures were built by Simon Rodia between 1921-1954. Before You Go ...
Now, as City Critic Sam Hall Kaplan told KPCC's Frank Stoltze, the Watts Towers are to LA what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. Come inside for a wonderful 1957 documentary about the towers.
As the battle rages over a planned Watts Towers-adjacent skate park, the city's also working on a nearby project that'll hook the Towers up more directly to the Blue Line, which stops nearby on E ...
The Watts Towers Art Center described the structure as “a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the ...
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