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

By: Marcos Hdez

Marcos Hdez — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:14:07 +0000

Great post about the Watts Towers, another example of great public folk art everyone should look into would be both The Orange Show and the Beer Can House, both in Houston, TX.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:19:07 +0000

My mother lived next door to Simon & the Watts Towers. She would watch him working on them after he would come home from work. She said he would pick up things he found on the way home, including pieces of glass to use for decorating the Towers. When my oldest brother was born in 1945, she had Simon take a picture of her holding her new baby next to the Towers! She is 83 yrs. old & still reminisces about it!

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.