The Watts Towers aren't officially open for their centennial, having been closed for restoration since 2017. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) A hundred years ago, in what was then the semi-rural ...
I’m Steven Vargas, and I’ll be guiding you each week to Southern California’s top five events for the weekend ahead, helping you to navigate L.A.’s cultural landscape and to shortlist happenings for ...
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 had no permits ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Committee for the Simon Rodia Towers in Watts records measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1953-1989. The records include clippings, a ...
The elements are taking their toll on the Watts Towers. Cracks are everywhere. The L.A. County Museum of Art and UCLA engineers installed more than a dozen sensors at strategic spots to measure the ...
The California coast has been immortalized in art many times. But L.A. locals know that SoCal’s real beauty–especially in the city–is found in the weird, the dark, the unexpected corners of ...
A hundred years ago, in what was then the semi-rural farming community of Watts, a 40ish-year-old Italian immigrant laborer named Sabato Rodia bought a little home on a dead-end block by the railroad ...
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