"This is the place where so many hungry kids come to work out their feelings. It's their house and more than 100 a day come here from all over Watts." Arthola Lee, who is curator of the Simon Rodia Towers in Watts was talking about the next-door Community Art Center on East 107th Street which is sponsored by the Towers Committee and provides free art classes, supplies, a place to "hang out" and, most important, the loving help of such people as Miss Lee and art instructors Lucille Krasne, Debby Brewer and William Blum. Photo dated: August 28, 1966.
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