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RIP Bud Goldstone, the Hero Who Saved Watts Towers
Bud Goldstone (1926-2012), a former aerospace engineer who worked for over 50 years to save Watts Towers, has died at the age of 86.
In 1959 he devised the test to prove the Towers were structurally sound and stopped the City of Los Angeles from demolishing them. He was a founding member of the Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts, Inc., which successfully sued the city in 1985 to save the Towers from the city's neglect.
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The Towers in Watts should be experienced by every architecture student in Los Angeles. For me it was an adventure trip, breaking in one early Sunday morning and climbing the towers scaffolding to the top.... also an incredible view all the way to the ocean from south of downtown
Eric Chavkin and I "saved" the Watts Towers.;.))))
It is sad most people in this city have never seen them. I think they are the most beautiful public art in Los Angeles, grazie Simon Rodi
Thank you Bud Goldstone.
*Eric I am looking for your picture deep in the files and when I find it, I will post. I hope you don't mind..
Bud Goldstone was the consultant engineer on Glen Small's FLYING HOUSE. As Glen recall Bud could make a brick fly.
A link to Smalls blog
http://www.smallatlarge.com/2012/09/vertical-city-3-down-to-earth/#comments
thanks Orhan. I am looking too
Thanks Orhan I will look for them too.
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