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Restored
Watts Towers
Los Angeles, California

Photo courtesy Environmental Communications

It only took 10 seconds of violent shaking during the 1994 earthquake to damage the Watts Towers that had taken over 30 years to built. Closed down for more than six years the Towers are now once again open to the public.
The repairs are being paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Photo courtesy Environmental Communications

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. Rodia said he wanted to do something big. he did it.....

Photo courtesy Environmental Communications

A CD with 16 high resolution color images of the Watts Towers will be available from the new partnership arcspace.com/Environmental Communications in January 2001.





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		Restored Watts Towers Los Angeles, California Photo courtesy Environmental Communications It only took 10 seconds of violent shaking during the 1994 earthquake to damage the Watts Towers that had taken over 30 years to built. Closed down for more than six years the Towers are now once again open to the public. The repairs are being paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Photo courtesy Environmental Communications Photo courtesy Environmental Communications 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. Rodia said he wanted to do something big. he did it..... Photo courtesy Environmental Communications A CD with 16 high resolution color images of the Watts Towers will be available from the new partnership arcspace.com/Environmental Communications in January 2001.