Mystery surrounds L.A.’s Watts Towers, starting with the name of the passionate visionary who built them–Simon Rodilla, Sabato “Sam” Rodia, Don Simon?—and continuing to his exact whereabouts from 1910-1918, the number of years he worked on the towers (33 or 34?), and the forces that drove him. A self-taught laborer, Rodia was born in Italy […]
