Series I: City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept. microficheca. 1988-2001
General Physical Description note: 0.5 box.
Scope and Contents note
Microfiche transparencies documenting the restoration of Simon Rodia's Towers.
box 1, folder 1
Assorted views and details.no date.
Scope and Contents note
Microfiche: East Tower; Floor 0-1 to 0-13, and A Tower; Gazebo levels A, B, and C- with house and chimney; North Wall interior,
BBQ, oven and canopy; South Wall interior levels A-C, with ship of Marco Polo and B Tower; South Wall outside levels A-C,
and B Tower.
box 1, folder 2
Repairs.no date.
Scope and Contents note
Microfiche: Center Tower 01-82 repair, 83-137 repair, and 138-155 repair; East Tower 1 05-28 repair.
box 1, folder 3
Three tall towers.no date.
Scope and Contents note
Microfiche of the three tall towers: Levels A-X.
Series II: Photographs by N.J. "Bud" Goldstoneca. 1994-2002
General Physical Description note: 2.5 boxes.
Scope and Contents note
Photographs and negatives documenting Simon Rodia's Towers and the restoration project following the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
The photographs are arranged according to Goldstone's original index to the collection, which abscribed a unique number to
each set of photographs.
box 1, folder 10
Index number 7. Spires and supports details.1999 May.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 1, folder 11
Index number 8. Details.1999 May.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 1, folder 12
Index number 9. Details.1999 September.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 1, folder 13
Index number 10. Details.2000 February.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with index print.
box 1, folder 14
Index number 11. Details.2000 February.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with index print.
box 1, folder 15
Index number 12. Work on Watts Towers and Levis advertisement (view from 10 Santa Monica freeway).1999 July.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs,with negatives.
box 1, folder 16
Index number 13. Wall detail.1999 September.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 1, folder 4
Goldstone Collection Index.no date.
Scope and Contents note
Doners Index Number Guide
box 1, folder 5
Index Number 1. Rainstorm effects on the South and North walls.1997 November-December.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 1, folder 6
Index Number 2. Watts Towers Amphitheater opening ceremonies.1999 February-March.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 1, folder 7
Index number 3. Overhead view, and details.1999 May.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs. Three rolls of negatives.
box 1, folder 8
Index number 4. Supports details.1995 December-1996 January.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 1, folder 9
Index numbers 5-6. Supports details, wall, and plaque.1998 October-November.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 1
Index number 14. Wall and tower details.2001 October.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 10
Index number 23. Details and view from scaffold.1997 January.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 11
Index number 24. Details.1996 December.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 12
Index number 25. Details.1996 December.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 13
Index number 26. House reconstruction.1994 November.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 14
Index number 27. Repairs and details.1995 August.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 15
Index number 28. Details of tall towers.1997 March.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 16
Index number 29. Details.1997 February.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 17
Index number 30. Details.1999 September.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 18
Index number 31. Wall excavation.1999 August.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 19
Index number 32. Details and view from street.2000 October.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 2
Index number 15. Details.1996 September.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 20
Index number 33. East tower details.1995 October-November.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 21
Index number 34. Tower restorers.1995 August.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 22
Index number 35. Top of East tower.1995 July.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 23
Index number 36. Wall details.1994 August, 1995 June.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 24
Index number 37. North wall boot ornament and South wall heart ornament.1997 October.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 25
Index number 38. Chimney and gazebo details.1997 April.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 26
Index number 39. Miscellaneous.2000 February.
Scope and Contents note
Negatives.
box 2, folder 27
Index number 40. Miscellaneous.no date.
Scope and Contents note
Negatives.
box 2, folder 28
Index number 41. Hector Mines earthquake damage.1999 October.
Scope and Contents note
et of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 3
Index number 16. Details.1996 January-February.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 4
Index number 17. Details.1995 August.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 5
Index number 18. Tall tower, wall and ornament details.1995 September.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 6
Index number 19. Wall details.1995 June.
Scope and Contents note
Two 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 7
Index number 20. Structural X-rays.1995 October.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 2, folder 8
Index number 21. Signs and amphiteater details.2002 March.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 2, folder 9
Index number 22. North wall and East tower.1994 October.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 1
Index number 42 and 43. Details.1998 February.
Scope and Contents note
Negatives.
box 3, folder 10
Index number 53. Details.1999 March.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 3, folder 11
Index number 54. Details.1999 March-April.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 3, folder 12
Index number 55. Hector Mine earthquake damage.1999 September-October.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 3, folder 13
Index number 56. Wall details; remains of Rodia's 1928 Hudson automobile.1998 August.
Scope and Contents note
Excavation during construction of the Watts Towers amphitheater. Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 14
Index number 57. North Wall restoration.1998 April.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 15
Index number 58. Wall and handprint.1998 July-August.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 16
Index number 59. Wall, details, Coke bottles.1998 April-May.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 17
Index number 60. Details.1998 October.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 18
Index number 61. South wall; remains of 1928 Hudson automobile.1998 September-October.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 19
Index number 62. Details.1998 March.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 2
Index number 44. Gazebo.1998 March.
Scope and Contents note
Negatives.
box 3, folder 20
Index number 63. Details.1997 May-June.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 21
Index number 64. Wall details.1997 December.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 3, folder 22
Index number 65. Views of towers.1998 December.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 3, folder 23
Index number 66. Tower details.1999 November.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with index print.
box 3, folder 3
Index number 46. Tower joints and snow on Mount Baldy.1999 January.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 3, folder 4
Index number 47. Miscellaneous.no date.
box 3, folder 5
Index number 48. Pipe joint with nails.1998 June-July.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 6
Index number 49. Pipe joint with nails.1998 June-July.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 7
Index number 50. Oven sculpture.1998 March.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives.
box 3, folder 8
Index number 51. Details.1999 November.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs, with negatives. With index print.
box 3, folder 9
Index number 52. Details.1999 March.
Scope and Contents note
Set of 4x6 color photographs.
box 4, folder 1
Unidentified negatives.no date.
Scope and Contents note
6 unmarked rolls of negative film. Images are possibly duplicates of indexed images.
Series III: Miscellaneous1959-2000
General Physical Description note: 1 box.
Scope and Contents note
Miscellaneous photographs, slides, printed materials, and technical documents relating to Simon Rodia's Towers. Includes the
original 1959 structural integrity report and test plan, and a set of slide transparencies by Los Angeles photographer Mitzi
Trumbo.
box 4, folder 10
B Tower conservation report.1993.
Scope and Contents note
Photographs mounted on paper.
box 4, folder 11
Rodia House conservation report.1993 October.
Scope and Contents note
One-page report and photo copies; four 4x5 transparencies of house chimney.
box 4, folder 12
Report by N.J. "Bud" Goldstone. "Historic photographs report".1993 November.
Scope and Contents note
Four-page report discussing availability of historic photos of the Watts Towers site.
box 4, folder 13
Garden spire photographs.1992 February.
Scope and Contents note
Color photographs of the Watts Towers' garden spire
box 4, folder 14
Miscellaneous photographs.ca. 1965-2000.
Scope and Contents note
Various color and b/w prints and negatives of the Watts Towers and related images, including four men at a Public Works hearing.
box 4, folder 15
Miscellaneous photographs--Slides.1978-1992.
Scope and Contents note
460 mounted 35mm color transparencies. Many of the photos are by N.J. "Bud" Goldstone (and include duplicates of images of
in Series 2).
box 4, folder 16
Schematic and diagrams.1987.
Scope and Contents note
Plan of the Watts Towers and diagram of patio cracks after the October 1987 earthquake.
box 4, folder 17
Mitzi Trumbo slides of Watts Towers.no date.
Scope and Contents note
121 mounted 35mm color transparencies of various views of the Watts Towers.
box 4, folder 2
Planter box photographs.no date.
Scope and Contents note
Two 4x6 color photographs of a planter box built by S. Rodia.
box 4, folder 3
Mosaic photographs.1995-1999.
Scope and Contents note
Color photographs of Watts Towers mosaic details, including negatives, and a letter to Bud Goldstone from Heather Smith, editor,
Lark Books. 10/1999
box 4, folder 4
The Towers stills.no date.
Scope and Contents note
Three stills from "The Towers," a documentary film (1953). One color photograph of gas-fitters pliers used by S. Rodia.
box 4, folder 5
Report by N.J. "Bud" Goldstone. "Calculations of structural integrity of Simon Rodia's towers".1959.
Scope and Contents note
Report and calculations on the structural integrity and safety of the Watts Towers by N.J. "Bud" Goldstone, Senor Structural
Test Engineer.
box 4, folder 6
Structural test plan.1963.
Scope and Contents note
Document describing a plan for testing structural integrity of the Watts Towers; copy of article from
Experimental Mechanics (January, 1963) describing the test.
box 4, folder 7
Structural test photographs.1959.
Scope and Contents note
B/W prints and negatives.
box 4, folder 8
Arloa Poquin photographs of Watts Towers.1978 May.
Scope and Contents note
Two b/w contact sheets with negatives. Photography by Arloa Poquin.
box 4, folder 9
North Wall conservation report.1992-1994.
Scope and Contents note
Partial copy of conservation report with photographs documenting earthquake damage to the Watts Towers' North Wall.