Archangels and Watts Towers w/TP query

[Paul Mackin]

Glad to hear they're still in good shape. I didn't even know TP had
a Watts essay. Will bet the towers are in it.

			P.


On Mon, 18 Mar 1996 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:
 
> Last year the towers were there and looking fine.  One problem is that access is 
> much more severely restricted now from former times; now there;'s a guardhouse 
> w-with a guard!  A surly one, the day I went.  My favorite thing about Watts 
> Towers is Simon Rodia's staement about why he built them:  
> 
> --I wanted to do something nice for America.
> 
> Is that a beautiful thing, or what?  To stand inside those unbelievable towers, 
> looking at years and years of junk lovingly culled (before junk art was hep) from 
> the streets of this blasted city, cool emerald glass from old 7-UPs (whose slogan in 
> the 50's was: You like it, it likes you); shiny tin from real tin cans polished and 
> embedded in cement; concentric circles of castaway saucers, no more coffee cups to 
> support!! It's a wonderland, no foolin.  A place fit for archangels, and preterite too.
> 
> Query:  Does TP mention the towers in his famous essay on Watts?
> 
> john m
> 
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