1. "Flashing Spires Built as Hobby. One constructed by Watts Resident rises to Height of 100 Feet." — Headline of the first Times story about the towers on Oct. 13, 1937.

Watts Towers became a state park in 1978 but only after surviving a planned demolition by the same Los Angeles city officials who later protected the towers. The towers are the life’s work of ...

Rosie Lee Hooks, director of the nearby Watts Towers Arts Center and Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center, last month sent an e-mail to the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, which owns the land ...

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 director of the Watts Towers Arts Center says that the safety of visitors to the Towers, a historic, city-run cultural landmark, is being compromised because its parking lot has been bulldozed ...

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.

The Watts Towers are a labor of love, graceful spires built by hand over 30 years in the Los Angeles-area backyard of sculptor and construction worker Simon Rodia.

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 gained a bit of national recognition this week, but not for a happy reason: The outdoor sculpture composed of salvaged steel, seashells, tile, glass, wire mesh, and concrete by ...

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.

Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker's Son, 21, Towers Over his Dad While Strolling NYC originally appeared on Parade. Williams Atticus Parker, the 21-year-old son of Mary-Louise Parker and Billy ...

The Watts Towers are one of three sites in California to recently be listed as "at risk" by The Cultural Landscape Foundation. "It's at risk because of the environment that it's in," says Preusser.