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Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California.It is located within the South Los Angeles region, bordering the cities of Lynwood, Huntington Park and South Gate to the east and southeast, respectively, and the unincorporated community of Willowbrook to the south.
The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo [5] ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States.
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, [1] took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. The riots were motivated by anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department , as well as grievances over employment ...
Watts, an exclusively Black neighborhood in the 1960s, is now majority Latino. It remains poor, with high unemployment. 55 years after riots, Watts section of LA still bears scars
103rd Street/Watts Towers station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway), at its intersection with 103rd Street, after which the station is named, along with the nearby landmark Watts Towers in the Watts ...
Watts Station is a train station built in 1904 in Watts, Los Angeles, California. It was one of the first buildings in Watts, and for many years, it was a major stop for the Pacific Electric Railway 's "Red Car" service between Los Angeles and Long Beach .
As of Dec. 30, 9390 people in Watts have been diagnosed with the virus, a case rate nearly 30% higher than the overall rate for Los Angeles; 117 have died. Leap has worked in Watts for 43 years.
An alache grows at the Stanford Avalon Community Garden in Watts. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Near the edge of the garden, Maria Gonzalez, 59, picked leaves from a tree, cleaning off the ...