Names: Rodia, Simon, 1879-1965 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: This digital collection includes a few items from the larger physical collection. The full physical collection contains materials generated by the Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts relating to the effort to save the Towers, a selected bibliography of articles about the Towers, photographs and pictures, legal documents, audiotapes, films, slides, videotape, transcripts of interviews with Simon Rodia and others, and material regarding the Watts riots and the community response to the Towers.
Date:: 1954/1985

Description:: The Watts Towers are the artistic creation of Italian American immigrant Simon Rodia, who single-handedly built his creation over a period of 34 years on a triangular lot at 1761-1765 East 107th Street in Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Italian American immigrant Simon Rodia poses with his artistic creation, popularly known as the Watts Towers, in the background.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The Watts Towers are the artistic creation of Italian American immigrant Simon Rodia, who single-handedly built his creation over a period of 34 years on a triangular lot at 1761-1765 East 107th Street in Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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