Watts Towers are one of Los Angeles’ most admired and least understood landmarks. They may also be the most powerful act of recycling that California has ever seen.
A hundred years ago, in what was then the semi-rural farming community of Watts, a 40ish-year-old Italian immigrant laborer named Sabato Rodia bought a little home on a dead-end block by the railroad tracks and started collecting junk.
By the end of 1921, his towers were well underway to becoming one of Los Angeles’ most admired and least understood landmarks.“You got to do something they never got ‘em in the world,” Rodia said, half-explaining himself.A rusted entrance sign shot through a fence with the Watts Towers in the background.
As Mr. Rodia’s “Nuestro Pueblo” grew, Mrs. Rodia quickly departed. This was the third and final broken marriage or cohabitation for him, a man of little education but profound sense of purpose. The Depression came and went. World War II came and went. Rodia labored on. The project grew to include three spires, two walls, a gazebo, several small towers and a patio. From certain angles, the whole assemblage looked like a stranded ship with three masts rising above the surrounding sea of working-class bungalows and railroad tracks. The wiry Rodia would climb it like a sailor in rigging or a spider in a web.
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