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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 Towers or Towers of Simon Rodia is a collection of 17 interconnected structures, two of which reach heights of over 99 feet (30 m). The Towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato ("Sam" or "Simon") Rodia in his spare time over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954.
The story behind Sabato Rodia's obsession to create what remains one of L.A.'s most admired and least understood landmarks.
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, an exclusively Black neighborhood in the 1960s, is now majority Latino. ... He was elected to City Council in Carson in 2005 and state Assembly in 2014 to represent an area that includes Watts.
Arturo Ybarra, who founded the Watts Century Latino Organization and pushed for unity among Black and Latino people in South Los Angeles, has died. He was 79. Watts' Arturo Ybarra, the 'epitome of ...
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Hawkins offers a variety of burgers, from the classic burgers: the Jr. Burger, Fat Burger, Double Burger, and Triple Burger, which are served with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, mustard, and mayonnaise, to the Colossal Burger, which is the Fat Burge with pastrami, the Whipper Burger, which is the Double Burger with pastrami and hot link, and the signature Leaning Tower of Watts, with ...