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The family lived in a small house behind a mercadito that her godmother owned in Barrio Simons, a neighborhood in what’s now Montebello that stood next to one of the biggest brickyards in the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2023

Within a couple of decades, the large Simons family was running a large empire of eight brickyards, from Boyle Heights to Santa Monica.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2021

Seven years ago, a developer saw some potential in the derelict brickyards and bought the property.

From New York Times • May 21, 2021

The couple lived for a time in North Carolina then moved to Mount Union, Pennsylvania, in the 1930s to work in the brickyards.

From Washington Times • May 10, 2018

Glass factories were established, and ropewalks, sail lofts, boatyards, anchor smithies, and brickyards, were soon ready to supply the rapidly increasing demands of the infant cities and the countryside on the lower Ohio.

From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Hulbert, Archer Butler