Watt Jazz Ride
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Creative Thing at 08.25.09 - 9:50 pm
33rd Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival
Sunday, September 27
The festival runs from 11 am to 6 pm
Free jazz music (all kinds)
Food and stuff will be for sale- and maybe even beer!
Tour the wonderful towers with a docent for $7
Tour the Charles Mingus Art Center for free
Meet: Echo Park Lake Boat House, 751 Echo Park Avenue, L.A.
Look for the bicycles
Time: Meet 11:30 am, roll out noon
Distance: 13 miles to the towers
Pace: 12 to 17 mph, no ridah left behind
We will stop at (most) major red lights
You can take the Blue Line Metro back to the city, or, if enough people want to cycle back, we can ride as a group.
Spoke cards for all ridazz distributed at the start
Bring money for tours and stuff (metro is $1.25), a spare tube, patch kit, pump and lock for yer steed.
The Watts Towers or Towers of Simon Rodia in the Watts district of Los Angeles, California, is a collection of 17 interconnected structures, two of which reach heights of over 99 feet (30 m). The Towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato ("Sam" or "Simon") Rodia in his spare time over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954. The work is a superb example of non-traditional vernacular architecture and American Naïve art. The Towers are located near (and visible from) the 103rd Street-Kenneth Hahn Station of the Metro Rail LACMTA Blue Line.
They were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990.
For more information: lesliecaldera-hat-sbcglobal-dot-calm
To learn more about the Towers, check out www.wattstowers.us
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Just got back from printing the spoke cards.
They are worth doing the ride for alone.
But wait! There's more!!
Free jazz music, free art show and the stunning Watts Towers.
I made 30 cards, so don't be late.
Creative Thing09.18.09 - 10:34 am
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Turn out was light, but we had a good afternoon.
Jambalaya and lemonade, good music, art and the Towers.
People watching was cool too. That community really knows how to dress for the occasion!
I know the time of day was a challange, but we had to roll when the music was playing.
We'll do it again next year.
Creative Thing09.28.09 - 8:53 am
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