Simon Rodia’s story will be told with a showing of the 2006 documentary “I Built the Tower” at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 30, at the Warner Grand Theatre.
It took Italian immigrant Simon “Sam” Rodia more than 25 years to build the Watts Towers, starting work on the massive, one-of-a-kind structure in 1921.Rodia had no permits to build the structure on the vacant residential lot he owned at 1765 E. 107th St.
Rodia’s story will be told with a showing of the 2006 documentary “I Built the Tower” at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 30, at the Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. Sixth St., in San Pedro. Admission is free but reservations are requested through eventbrite.com. It is being presented in commemoration of the towers’ 100th anniversary by the Los Angeles Harbor International Film Festival.
The film, made by Edward Landler and Brad Byer , includes audio interviews of Rodia from the early 1960s.
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