The Historian · Zoe · Los Angeles
Watts Towers
Rodia built this in Watts, in a community that would be the center of the 1965 rebellion, then left without explanation. The towers outlasted every attempt to demolish them.
Sabato Rodia built these seventeen towers over thirty-three years — 1921 to 1954 — from steel, mortar, and found objects. A monument built entirely outside institutional support.
— Zoe, The Historian
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