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4 unusual facts about Simon Rodia


Daniel and the Towers

Daniel and The Towers is a Made-for-TV movie featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.

The story itself, and the friendship it describes, are fiction; however, Simon Rodia did build the towers.

Michael Abels

The song appears on the sound track of I Build the Tower, a documentary feature film on the life of the Towers' creator, Simon Rodia.

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Simon Rodia, Italian-American architect who created the Watts Towers in Los Angeles



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