the Watts Towers Arts Center
Skateboard Park at the Watts Towers
have been fruitful.
The project has been put on hold
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"If a man who has not labeled himself an artist happens to produce
a work of art, he is likely to cause a lot of confusion and inconvenience."
(Calvin Trillin in the New Yorker in 1965). Sam Rodia an Italian immigrant
who, the correspondent from NYC explained, "constructed
a dream-like complex of openwork towers . . . and encrusted them with
a sparkling mosaic, composed mainly of what had once been refuse."
spent most of his lifetime building his world which he called Nuestro
Pueblo, or "our town."
Sam Rodia's life work is now known as the Watts Towers. He,
himself, called it 'Nuestro Pueblo'.
After visiting the Watts Towers for the first time in my life with
my old friend Donna, who also is a webmaster, we decided to donate this
site to the people who preserve and guard this great site specific sculpture
by Sam Rodia. we asked the information desk people if there was an official
site of the Watts Towers. There was not; so we asked if they would mind
if we made a site for them for nothing; they had no objection - to the
contrary. Donna registered wattstowers dot us and I build the site.
So here it is - dedicated to the Watts Towers, Sam Rodia's legacy.
On these pages I will try to keep the information updated as the
Watts Towers Arts Center supplies me with updates.
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