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Watts
Watts is plural for ''watt'', the unit of power. Watts may also refer to: People *Watts (surname), list of people with the surname Watts Fictional characters *Watts, main character in the film '' Some Kind of Wonderful'' *Watts family, six characters in the TV series ''EastEnders'' *Curly Watts, in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Peter Watts, in the TV series ''Millennium'' *Raquel Watts, in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' *Wade Owen Watts, protagonist in the novel ''Ready Player One'' and its film adaption. Places United Kingdom * Watts Bank, a nature reserve in Berkshire, England. * Watts Hill, Dorset, England. * Watts Mortuary Chapel, Surrey, England * Watts Naval School, Norfolk, England * Watts Warehouse, Manchester, England United States * Watts, Los Angeles, California, a city district ** Watts, California, former city that was supplanted by Watts, Los Angeles ** Watts Station, historic train station in Watts, Los Angeles ** Watts Towers, 17 sculptur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts, Los Angeles
Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. It is located within the South Los Angeles region, bordering the cities of Lynwood, Huntington Park and South Gate to the east and southeast, respectively, and the unincorporated community of Willowbrook to the south. Founded in the late nineteenth century as a ranching community, the arrival of the railroads and the construction of Watts Station saw the rapid development of Watts as an independent city, but in 1926 it was consolidated with Los Angeles. By the 1940s, Watts transformed into a primarily working class African-American neighborhood, but from the 1960s developed a reputation as a low-income, high-crime area, following the Watts riots and the increasing influence of street gangs. Watts has become a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood with a significant African American minority, and remains one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Los Angeles despite falling crime rates since the 1990s. Notable civic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts, California
Watts, California, was a city of the sixth class that existed in Los Angeles County, California, between 1907 and 1926, when it was consolidated with the City of Los Angeles and became one of the neighborhoods in the southern part of that city. Founding The area now known as Watts is situated on the 1843 Rancho La Tajauta Mexican land grant. As on all ranchos, the principal vocation was at that time grazing and beef production. There were household settlers in the area as early as 1882, and in 1904 the population was counted as 65 people; a year later it was 1,651. C.V. Bartow of Long Beach was noted as one of the founders of Watts. Naming In 1904 it was reported that Watts was named after Pasadena businessman Charles H. Watts, who was found dead by suicide in the St. Elmo Hotel, Los Angeles, on August 23 of that year. The ''Los Angeles Times'' said: "Watts at one time conducted a livery stable on North Main Street and another at Pasadena and was a man of considera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts (surname)
Watts is a surname, and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Alaric Alexander Watts, British poet and journalist * Caroline Watts, British artist * Danièle Watts, American actress * David G. Watts, British game designer * George Frederic Watts, British painter and sculptor * Heather Watts, American ballerina and dancer * Jon Watts, American filmmaker * Julia Watts, American author * Julie Watts, Australian author and publisher * Julie Watts, Australian poet, winner of the Blake Poetry Prize in 2017 * Mary Stanbery Watts (born 1868), American novelist * Naomi Watts, British actress * Peter Watts (author), Canadian author and biologist * Richard Watts, Jr., American theater critic * Robert Watts, British film producer * Robert Watts (artist), American artist * Rolonda Watts, American actress and talk show host * Stanley J. Watts, American artist * Theodore Watts-Dunton, British poet and critic * Tim Watts (filmmaker), British filmmaker * Walter Henry Watts (17761842), British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts Family
The Watts family are a fictional family in the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders''. The family consists of Den ( Leslie Grantham), Angie (Anita Dobson), Sharon (Letitia Dean), Dennis (Nigel Harman), Chrissie (Tracy-Ann Oberman), Vicki (Scarlett Alice Johnson), Dennis Jnr ( Bleu Landau), Albie and Alyssa. The Watts family have been a major part of ''EastEnders'' since its inception in 1985, anchoring its early success in the mid to late 1980s and then again dominating the action with their various comebacks since 2001. Their longstanding "feud" with the Mitchell family has become a hallmark of the show, as has their warring for the Queen Vic pub, the original and traditional home of the Watts family. Over the years the fractured family has centred largely on Den and his "princess", Sharon, with familial affairs also being marked by Den's tumultuous marriages with his long-suffering first wife, Angie, and scheming second wife, Chrissie. The Watts family are one of ''EastEnders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts Station
Watts Station is a train station built in 1904 in Watts, Los Angeles, California. It was one of the first buildings in Watts, and for many years, it was a major stop for the Pacific Electric Railway's "Red Car" service between Los Angeles and Long Beach. It was the only structure that remained intact when stores along 103rd Street in Watts were burned in the 1965 Watts Riots. Remaining untouched in the middle of the stretch of street that came to be known as "Charcoal Alley", the station became a symbol of continuity, hope, and renewal for the Watts community. It has since been declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Construction and operation as a Pacific Electric station Watts was built on the old Rancho La Tajauta. In 1902, the family of Charles H. Watts, for whom the community was later named, sought to spur development of the rancho by donating a site to the Pacific Electric Railway. Watts Station was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts Towers
The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or ''Nuestro Pueblo'' ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles. The entire site of towers, structures, sculptures, pavement and walls were designed and built solely by Sabato ("Simon" or "Sam") Rodia (1879 or 1886 to 1965), an Italian immigrant construction worker and tile mason, over a period of 33 years from 1921 to 1954. The tallest of the towers is . The work is an example of outsider art (or Art Brut) and Italian-American naïve art. The Watts Towers were designated a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark in 1990. They are also a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and one of nine folk art sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles. The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts Hospital
Watts Hospital, located in Durham, North Carolina was the city's first hospital, operating between 1895 and 1976. The hospital opened in 1895, funded entirely by George W. Watts, as a private, 22-bed, modern hospital dedicated to the care of Durham's white citizens and offered free care to those unable to pay. The hospital became public in 1953 and closed 1976, when Durham County General Hospital opened. The grounds and buildings of the hospital's 1909 campus were converted to become the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, which began classes in 1980. History Watts was established in 1895, on land donated by George Watts with an endowment of $50,000, provided solely by Watts. The land fronted on West Main Street with Guess Road (later renamed Buchanan Blvd.) to the west and Watts Street to the east. By 1909, the 22-bed hospital was insufficient for the explosive growth of Durham, and new, larger facility was built on at the intersection of Club Boulevard and Broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts Mortuary Chapel
The Watts Cemetery Chapel or Watts Mortuary Chapel is a chapel in an Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) version of Celtic Revival in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey. While the overall architectural structure is loosely Romanesque Revival, in the absence of any appropriate Celtic models, the lavish decoration in terracotta relief carving and paintings is Celtic Revival, here seen on an unusually large scale. According to the local council, it is "a unique concoction of art nouveau, Celtic, Romanesque and Egyptian influence with Mary's own original style". Other responses have been less positive. Ian Nairn, in the 1971 ''Surrey'' volume of the ''Buildings of England'' series, described the interior as "one of the most soporific rooms in England" and regretted "the intolerable torpor and weariness of the motifs". It is a Grade I listed building. History When Compton Parish Council created a new cemetery, local resident artist Mary Fraser-Tytler, the wife of Vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts, Oklahoma
Watts is a town in northern Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named for John Watts, also known as Young Tassel, a Chickamauga Cherokee chief, who died in 1802.Hagan, Phyllis. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Watts." Retrieved September 11, 201/ref> The population was 324 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.5 percent over the figure of 316 recorded in 2000. History Watts is near the site of Fort Wayne (Indian Territory), Old Fort Wayne, which was founded in 1838. The Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) built a line through the area in 1895-96, and in 1912, relocated its division point from Stillwell to Watts Switch, one mile north of a community called Ballard. Most of Ballard's merchants moved to the new community of Watts, along with gamblers, land speculators, construction workers and KCS employees. Frank C. Adair and Frank Howard organized the Guarantee Bank. After statehood, Adair also became the first sheriff of Adair County. Several other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1798 Watts
1798 Watts, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 April 1949, by IU's Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States. The asteroid was named for American astronomer Chester Burleigh Watts. Its small minor-planet moon has a period of 26.96 hours. Orbit and classification ''Watts'' is a member of the Flora family, a large group of stony S-type asteroids in the inner main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.9–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,192 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.12 and an inclination of 6 ° with respect to the ecliptic. ''Watts'' was first observed and identified as at Yerkes Observatory in 1934, extending the body's observation arc by 15 years prior to its official discovery observation. Physical characteristics Spectral type In the SMASS classifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts Warehouse
Watts Warehouse is a large, ornate Victorian Grade II* listed building standing on Portland Street in the centre of Manchester, England. It opened in 1856 as a textile warehouse for the wholesale drapery business of S & J Watts, and was the largest single-occupancy textile warehouse in Manchester. Today the building is part of the Britannia Hotels chain. History The Watts family The textile firm, ''S & J Watts Limited'' was founded by James Watts (Mayor of Manchester), a Mancunian industrialist and entrepreneur, whose textile business had started in a small weaver's cottage in Didsbury. His success as a cotton trader was part of the commercial boom of the 19th century that gave Manchester the name "Cottonopolis", when the city was a global centre for the cotton trade. Watts became an important figure among British industrialists, socialising with politicians and churchmen at his home, Abney Hall, in Cheadle. Prince Albert chose to stay with him when he visited Manchester t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some Kind Of Wonderful (film)
''Some Kind of Wonderful'' is a 1987 American romantic drama film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Lea Thompson. It is one of several successful teen dramas written by John Hughes in the 1980s. Plot The film is set against the strict social hierarchy of an American public high school in the San Fernando Valley. Blue-collar mechanic and aspiring artist Keith Nelson is best friends with tomboy drummer Watts. Keith's father is obsessed with sending him to college for business, as he would be the first in their family to go. Keith is enamored with Amanda Jones, one of the most popular girls in school, and he spends much of his time drawing her. She is dating Hardy Jenns, a spoiled and selfish boy from a wealthy neighborhood. However, Amanda herself is not wealthy: she lives in the same working-class district as Watts and Keith, and she borrows her fashionable clothes from her friends. Hardy treats Amanda as his "property" while also fool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
