Tag: Watts Towers
A Vision Made Real: Watts Towers
We visited the Watts Towers on the Sunday before Christmas. Watts Towers are the remarkable creation of an immigrant tile setter named Simon Rodia, who worked on them from 1921 to about 1954. There are seventeen towers and other structures on the property, the largest being about 90′ tall. The towers were created entirely by …
What We Saw in LA
Yesterday we visited Watts Towers, the creation of an immigrant tile setter working by himself without much notice beyond his immediate neighbors. More after we return to Chicago.
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