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	Watts Towers - Dorchester Magazine
		The Watts Towers are a majestic and inspiring tribute to one man's ingenuity and commitment.
		There is speculation that Rodia's structures were inspired by the giant ceremonial towers he had seen as a young boy in the annual Giglio festival back in Italy, but because of his limited intellect and vocabulary he was never able to fully express his motivation for building the towers.
		The Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts was formed and its long struggle for their preservation began with a load test performed on one fateful day in 1959 that would determine the towers' future.
	mysite.verizon.net /res8xin8/siouxsie.html (1666 words)

	Towers of Power - Los Angeles Times
		Watts towers did not begin with a tower at all.
		Watts Towers is one of just six national historic landmarks in Los Angeles (San Francisco has 18, New York City 85).
		One thing seems certain, however: The towers are viewed as a drain on city funds, never as a viable source of income and pride.
	www.latimes.com /features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-towers43oct23,0,6577017.story?coll=la-home-magazine (2297 words)

	Towers of Power
		Watts Towers is one of just six national historic landmarks in Los Angeles (San Francisco has 18, New York City 85).
		By the time Rodia left, at age 76, Watts was built up and filled in, and the towers were already a relic, with brightly colored tiles from the defunct Malibu Potteries embedded alongside pre-World War II Japanese porcelain.
		He did the math, declared the towers sound, and a "load test" was performed with a hydraulic cylinder and a winch truck.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/wattstower01bk.htm (3746 words)

	Watts Towers
		The Watts Towers are an amalgam of an estimated 45,000 pieces of bottles, glass, mirrors, seashells, broken pottery, and tiles.
		The first tower he built is 55' tall, the second 97' tall and the third 99' tall.
		He gave the house, garden and towers to a neighbor and left, moving to Martinez, CA to be near his family.
	www.agilitynut.com /h/wattstowers.html (461 words)

	Life & Times - Arts : Watts Towers
		The intricate towers and surrounding wall were built on a small triangular site at 1765 107th Street East in Watts, on one-tenth of an acre (400 square meters) edging the Pacific Electric Railway Red Car tracks where Rodia settled sometime between 1921 and 1925.
		Embedded in the mortar of the towers are the remnants of all sorts of popular household items of the times - from ceramic tiles to mirrors to the brilliant blue and green broken glass of old 7-Up and Milk of Magnesia bottles.
		While the Towers fall into no strict art category, international authorities and the general public here at home have lauded them as a unique monument to the human spirit and the perseverance of a singular vision.
	www.kcet.org /lifeandtimes/arts/watts.php (269 words)

	Architectural Resources Group: Conservation - Watts Towers
		The towers were designated a Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Monument in 1963, which is only one of four National Historic Landmarks in the city of Los Angeles.
		During a 2003 inspection, fissures were observed above the 60-foot height in the tallest central tower, and significant fissures were found in the ornamental cementitious slab on grade.
		ARG is investigating and evaluating the fissures in the upper portion of the towers and in the slab on grade to determine the causes.
	www.argsf.com /projconservation_watts.shtml (173 words)

	Watts, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Three of Watts' most notorious gangs—Grape Street Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips—formed a cease-fire agreement after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a pact that may have been tied to a decrease in crime in the area between 1992 and 2000.
		In July 2005, Watts returned to the news when a police SWAT team accidentally killed 18-month-old Suzy Peña who was held hostage by her father at a used-car lot in the area.
		Watts is bordered by the cities of South Gate on the east and Lynwood on the southeast, and the unincorporated areas of Willowbrook on the south and Florence on the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watts,_Los_Angeles,_California (1448 words)

	picklebird - los angeles alternative art magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Built single-handedly by Simon Rodia over a period of 33 years, the Watts Towers and surrounding wall were built on a triangular lot, which also held his house.
		Each tower column consisting of internal steel reinforcements which are tied with wire, wrapped in wire mesh and covered by hand with cement.
		In 1959, while the towers were threatened with demolition, he completely rejected the idea of ever returning to his creation, stating that part of his life was over.
	www.picklebird.com /articles/spotlightnow.php?id=6 (834 words)

	Watts Towers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Built single-handedly by Simon Rodia over a period of 33 years, the Watts Towers consists of nine major sculptural forms made of steel and covered with mortar embedded with pieces of ceramic tile, pottery shards, sea shells, and broken glass.
		The tallest tower is over 30 meters high and contains the longest slender column of reinforced concrete in the world.
		From 1921 to 1954, Rodia surrounded his house with three tall sendor towers; a patio; a gazebo containing a circular bench, 3 bird baths, and a spire over 10 meters tall; and a structure he called the "Ship of Marco Polo" which has another spire just as high.
	www.jupitter-larsen.com /watts.html (197 words)

	Watts Towers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The towers are one of nine folk art sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and one of only four National Historic Landmarks in Los Angeles.
		The steel, concrete and glass folk art structures were undamaged during the Watts riots in 1965.
		The Watts Towers Arts Center is a community arts center that was opened in 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watts_Towers (919 words)

	Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives: All Along the Watts Towers
		To shape finials on the towers and a gazebo, he used colanders, pots and pans, and a bowling ball.
		Among the towers’ nemeses were vandals who chipped away at the structure; unqualified restorers hired by the city in the mid-1970s; erosion that undermined the towers'stability; and, of course, earthquakes.
		Kazor looks across the street from the towers at simple, shotgun-style houses and sees potential: "I can see these houses as a café, a bookstore, or homes for artists in residence," she says.
	www.nationaltrust.org /magazine/archives/arch_story/082901.htm (893 words)

	Life & Times Arts \| Watts Towers Photo Gallery
		The Committee took over the responsibility for the Towers, worked to pay off the debt, and began the task of proving that the Towers were structurally sound.
		Cables were to be connected to the tallest tower, and stress applied in 1,000-pound increments, up to the top load of 10,000 pounds.
		If the tower could withstand this load for five minutes, the City would concede that the Towers were stable enough not to be demolished.
	www.kcet.org /lifeandtimes/arts/watts_history.php (970 words)

	:Watts Towers : arcspace.com
		The Watts Towers (1921-1954), painstakingly created and constructed by Italian emigrant, Simon Rodia over a 30-year period, are an intensely personal, sculptural expression of the enduring spirit of mankind.
		Rising symbolically from a walled triangular site in the heart of the Watts ghetto, the towers survived a threat of destruction in the late 1950's to become a world-famous landmark and a monument to Rodia's creative energy.
		The Towers, two nearly 100 feet in height, and the remaining six averaging 40 feet, are an intricate assemblage of slender concrete columns and walls sometimes reinforced with chicken wire and ornamented with a tracery of connective elements and mosaics of broken tiles, crockery, pop bottles, bottle caps and 75,000 sea shells.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/rodia (204 words)

	OFF THE MAP . Travelogue . Simon Rodia \| PBS
		The Watts Towers were built by Italian immigrant Simon Rodia on his triangular lot in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts over the course of 33 years.
		They had planned to save The Watts Towers, but soon learned that plans for their destruction were underway.
		View a tour of the Watts Towers that was produced on the eve of their re-opening to the public in 2001.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/offthemap/html/travelogue_artist_6.htm?true (1104 words)

	Watts Towers & Art Center \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Los Angeles \| Frommers.com
		Watts became notorious as the site of riots in the summer of 1965, during which 34 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured.
		Although there's not much for the casual tourist here, the Watts Towers are truly a unique attraction, and the adjoining art gallery illustrates the fierce determination of area residents to maintain cultural integrity.
		The Towers -- the largest piece of folk art created by a single person -- are colorful, 99-foot-tall cement and steel sculptures ornamented with mosaics of bottles, seashells, cups, plates, pottery, and ceramic tiles.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/losangeles/A25016.html (342 words)

	Simon Rodia Towers, Watts
		In 33 years of work he completed four towers, two of which are 112ft/34m high, and represent perhaps the most complete example of folk-art today.
		When the towers were completed in 1954 he made a present of them to a neighbor, moved to Martinez, a town near San Francisco, and never returned to Watts.
		Their efforts to prevent their demolition were crowned with success when after four years the sculptured complex was declared a cultural monument.
	www.planetware.com /los-angeles/watts-simon-rodia-towers-us-ca-srt.htm (264 words)

	wattspaper
		The towers were built in concentric rings, and on the north, shady side of each tower, one can see a ladder Rodia made for himself to climb up and carry a pail of wet cement and his tools as the structure grew.
		The towers differ in their thrust—the left one pushes nearly straight up, while the rings around the right one give it a sort of echoing feel of motion, as if one were watching ripples on a pool, only instead of moving outwards on a surface, they were getting smaller and moving upwards.
		At the Watts Towers, one is rather going up the down staircase, caught in an escalating experience where perception and concept enter into a chase after one another; at the moment they appear as one, they flip into the other.
	myweb.lmu.edu /pharris/Wattspaper.html (8554 words)

	Stories: Nonfiction: Wonder of the Watts Towers, The
		Rodia began his project, Watts was a semirural area on the edge of the city.
		The towers remain a symbol of hope in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
		Art critics have called the Watts Towers “a monument to the human spirit.” Simon Rodia had a vision of what he wanted to do, and he did it with little more than hand tools, cast-off materials, and his inventiveness.
	www.highlightskids.com /Stories/NonFiction/NF0598_wattstower.asp (693 words)

	abc7.com: Tour of Culture: The Watts Towers
		The architect of the towers was Simon Rodia, an italian immigrant who began work on his project in 1921 and stopped in 1954.
		The community of Watts has changed significantly since the towers were built and has a history that is well documented, but Herr says for the many people who have migrated to Watts over the years, they take pride in the towers and sense how special they are.
		International visitors are the towers' most frequent visitors, but Herr is hoping more people in Los Angeles will stop by for a 45 minute tour of a tower of culture in Watts.
	abclocal.go.com /kabc/story?section=seenon&id=4388505&ft=sm (381 words)

	Raw Vision
		To this end, the Department of Building and Safety concluded that the ‘towers exist as dangerous structures and public nuisances and they endanger the life, limb, property, safety, and general welfare of the public.’ Since they believed repair was impossible, they decreed destruction.
		Soliciting letters and validating praise of the Towers from arts professionals internationally, the committee took over the responsibility for the Towers from Cartwright and King, worked to pay off the debt, and began the task of proving that the Towers were structurally sound.
		Cables were to be connected to the tallest tower, and stress applied in 1,000-pound increments, up to the top load of 10,000 pounds, equivalent to a gale-force wind of seventy-six miles per hour.
	www.rawvision.com /back/wattstowers/wattstowers.html (2319 words)

	Watts Towers - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		WATTS TOWERS [Watts Towers] group of folk-art towers in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
		Once considered an eyesore and threatened with demolition, the complex was eventually recognized as a significant work of art and designated a national landmark.
		Watts Artist Tim Washington; grandparents worked on Watts Towers
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wattstow.html (308 words)

	Watts Towers of Simon Rodia
		The Watts Towers consists of nine major sculptures, including two towers that are nearly 100 feet tall.
		The tallest tower is generally recognized as the longest slender reinforced concrete column in the world.
		The Watts Towers are one of only nine works of folk art listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.roadtripamerica.com /roadside/Watts-Towers-of-Simon-Rodia.htm (222 words)

	Tribute in Light: 88 Searchlights in Tribute to the Twin Towers
		Towers of Light: a profound symbol of strength, hope and resiliency; a reclamation of New York City’s skyline and identity; a tribute to rescue workers and a mnemonic for all those who lost their lives
		It will be 616,000 watts of light, pointing upwards from just next door to the original site of the World Trade Center towers; it's a derivation of the Phantom Towers idea that graced the cover of the New York Times Magazine the week after the attacks.
		In part to assuage them, the title was changed from "Towers of Light" to "Tribute in Light." Some Battery Park City residents, eager to get on with their lives after six months of chaotic disruption, resent the creation of another memorial there and the intrusion of what they see as another public spectacle.
	www.nidhin.com /wtclight.html (1465 words)

	Author Chris Epting - Life & Stuff Photo Gallery
		The tallest tower is nearly 100 feet high and contains the longest slender column of reinforced concrete in the world.
		Simon Rodia, also known as Sabato "Sam" Rodia and "Don Simon" by some of his neighbors and visitors, was born in 1879 in the town of Campania in southern Italy.
		From 1921 to 1954, Rodia surrounded his house with three tall sendor towers; a patio; a gazebo containing a circular bench, 3 bird baths, and a spire 38 feet tall; and a structure he called the "Ship of Marco Polo" which has a 28-foot tall spire.
	www.chrisepting.com /watts.htm (309 words)

	Los Angeles - Watts, California - Simon Rodia - Watts Junk Towers
		The towers are fenced in, and behind them there is a nice cement step/seating area.
		Such was the lot of Simon Rodia, an Italian immigrant who designed and built (without the aid of ladders) Watts Towers, the tallest of which is almost 100 feet high.
		The towers and the surrounding grounds -- where Rodia once lived -- are studded with mosaics formed of carefully inlaid glass (mostly soda bottles).
	www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==2776 (426 words)

	Watts Towers « Google Sightseeing
		You can see the Watts Towers in the centre of our thumbnail with shadows extending to the north.
		Watts Towers were built single-handedly by a Mr Simon Rodia, over a period of 33 years.
		As a safety test a crane was used to shake the towers, yet none of them budged, and the test was concluded when the crane suffered a mechanical failure.
	googlesightseeing.com /2005/12/08/watts-towers (491 words)

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		In the 1950s, when the Watts Towers were created, Watts was a prosperous, middle-class enclave, and Simon Rodia had dreams of founding a religiously-grounded community centre.
		Nowadays, Watts is considered a slum, and yet some of the tiny houses are strangely attractive, microcosms of the American dream.
		Despite this, it feels very odd to slip into the Watts Towers art center, funded by a bewildering variety of private and city organizations, to see an art gallery with an upscale look.
	cgi.amazing.com /david/portfolio/watts-towers (330 words)

	NarrowLarry's World of the Outstanding - The Watts Towers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1955, with the two tallest towers standing nearly 100 feet tall, Rodia left the home, property, and his towers to a neighbor and moved to Northern California.
		In a court hearing on the fate of the towers, the committee volunteered to conduct a loading test on the towers.
		The Watts Towers are today owned by the city that tried to tear them down.
	www.narrowlarry.com /nlwatts.html (330 words)

	Watts Towers. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		group of folk-art towers in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
		Once considered an eyesore and threatened with demolition, the complex was eventually recognized as a significant work of art and designated a national landmark.
		Damaged by the 1994 earthquake, the towers underwent extensive renovations from 1995 to 2001.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wa/WattsTow.html (192 words)

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