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the Watts Towers by Sam Rodia
celebrating lifeFor the first time in my life I had a chance to actually visit the Watts Towers. When I lived in Southern California I saw them on the news when the city of LA was testing their strength in the fifties. The officials wanted them demolished because they thought the were unsafe. To no surprise to people like Buckminster Fuller they withstood the test and were allowed to remain standing. Artists and other protagonists were instrumental in their having been saved.
Actually the whole project that Sam undertook was not only about building towers. it is the whole environment that he created - in intricate web of cement, wire and mesh forming an virtual indestructible construction resembling a marriage between the Eifel Tower in Paris and Park Güell in Barcelona by Antonio Gaudi.
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