Simon Rodia was born in Italy, and immgirated to California. In 1921 he moved to the small town of Watts and began working on a strange project that would consume the next thirty-four years of his life. Spending what little money he earned as a construction worker on cement and steel, he worked ni

Born in Chicago, Grew up in South Florida, College in Central Florida, St. Louis and abroad, living and working in New York City,