Watts Towers

The Watts Towers, Sabato (Simon) Rodia's creation - art from junk	View of the towers	Details showing construction. Note handle of broken cup on the RH side of the globe
Another cup handle, fragments of china, glass, electrical insulators, shells, whatever he could find.	Insulator and cup	Chinese soup bowl among china fragments
Intricate inner structure	Designs cast into floor, probably from pieces of wrought iron	Simon's street number and mailbox
A second street number and mailbox. Note the "7-up" bottle. He uses lots of them for green glass. The blue is from "Milk of Magneisa" bottles.	Inlaid broken glass	And the occasional decorative tile. Supposedly he worked for a tile company for a while, before they found him taking some samples home for this project.
The intricate structure is all steel welded together then covered with concrete and glass.	Amazing collection of junk he used in the construction	A gathering place, used by tour guides to let everyone sit during part of the tour
The intricate structure has to be seen to be beileved!	Simon named the towers - this is his sign for the West Tower	All electrical insulators
Looking up at the West Tower	Wonder where he got the statue?	Our tour guide, Syni Patterson, who ran a great tour and entertained us with her poetry about Simon Rodia
Our tour guide, Syni Patterson, who ran a great tour and entertained us with her poetry about Simon Rodia	Colorful member of our tour	Looking east from the Arts Center
Simply amazing!	Kids in an art class at the center, reflected in their piano	Art projects at the center, reflected in the shiniest piano I've ever seen!
Portrait on a shovel	Portaits on shovels	Portait on a shovel