Comments on: One Man’s Hands: The Watts Towers

By: joey

joey — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:16:40 +0000

another place with a similar subject would be the coral castle in florida–that one’s actually freaky!

By: patti

patti — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:17:01 +0000

Wow, never knew the history of those famous Watts towers. Watts is only a few cities away from me, it is pretty scary going in that area, not to mention the streets are a maze and you can find yourself going round and round and not getting out and getting ugly and intimidating looks from them gangstas and seeing cops every other block. Ill have to make sure to go check those towers out up close, of course accompanied by a couple big guys and some maize. :)~

By: joey

joey — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:28:34 +0000

thanks for the movie, miss cellania! that music took me right back to first grade! i remember first seeing the towers in dragnet, as well.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:27:28 +0000

Thanks, badgerbruin! In all honesty, I was going to do a list of such projects, but when I started researching the first one, the story was so involved that I made a whole post of it. I’ll gladly add your suggestion to my working list!

By: badgerbruin

badgerbruin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:20:27 +0000

Miss C – Great post! For another example of folk art mastery, look up Fred Smith’s Concrete Park in Phillips, WI. Also very interesting.

By: badgerbruin

badgerbruin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:16:38 +0000

Miss C – Great post! For another example of single-handed folk art mastery, look up Fred Smith’s Concrete Park in Phillips, WI. It would also make an interesting post.

By: Andi

Andi — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:59:05 +0000

I had never heard of these towers but they are very fascinating. I am definitely going to do some more research on these. Thanks Miss Cellania for an interesting post today!

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By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:41:44 +0000

Roger, don’t rent The Towers. It’s public domain, and embedded in full here -only 12 minutes.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:28:24 +0000

What a fascinating post! I remember my first exposure to the towers, in one of the stock-footage opening montages for Dragnet. Now, of course, I’m used to seeing them on my PS2 in GTA: San Andreas. But, I digress…

Now off to Netflix to look for those documentaries!

By: bogi

bogi — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:12:04 +0000

Going to visit these towers is a bit dangerous. This area of town has never really recovered, even decades later, from poverty. Don’t go by yourself.