The Los Angeles Watts Towers

by Arloa Goldstone and Bud Goldstone

Book Overview

The Watts Towers, located in south-central Los Angeles, are the monumental work of one man: Simon Rodia. Born in Ribottoli, Italy c. 1879, Rodia immigrated to the U.S. when he was about fifteen. In 1921, he purchased a triangular-shaped lot at the end of a dead-end L.A. street and over the next thirty years he worked single-handedly--without machine equipment, scaffolding, bolts, rivets, welds, or drawing-board designs--to build the nine sculptures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892364912
• ISBN13: 9780892364916
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 10.1"