The Salvation of the Watts Towers is the Simon Rodia Earth Foundation's story of that fateful day, October 10th of 1959, when the City of Los Angeles was just four metric tons away from destroying the Watts Towers.
 

     

  Bud Goldstone-Aeronautical Engineer  

    Aircraft are designed by aeronautical engineers.  An aeronautical engineer, named Bud Goldstone, is credited with leading the technical efforts to save the Towers of Simon Rodia by proving their strength and stability to the LA City engineers with a 'stress test' that he devised.
 

WHY ARE THE PHOTOS OF THE TOWERS TURNED SIDE-WAYS?