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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 were designated a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark in 1990. [4] [1] They are also a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and one of nine folk art sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles. The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park encompasses the Watts ...
Forthmann House, 2014. National Historic Landmarks: South Los Angeles includes some of the city's most historic sites, including three National Historic Landmarks.The sites receiving this high designation are: (1) the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, built in 1923, and used as the principal site of the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games; [2] (2) the Watts Towers (HCM #15), a collection of 17 ...
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 .
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A daylong festival 50 years ago on Aug. 20 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Wattstax was intended as a Black Woodstock. But the name of course was also a reference to the Watts Uprising of ...
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 ...
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.