Christmas In The Simons Brickyard

By kiki

I vividly remember the holiday seasons in the Simons Brickyard when I was growing up in the mid to late 1940s. I remember that the guys from Mt. Carmel Catholic Church Men’s Club would get two horse-drawn hay wagons for us kids and young adults to ride and pass out fruit baskets to the families living in the Brickyard. We would sing Christmas carols as we passed out the fruit baskets on those cold, sometimes wet, 1940s Christmas Eves.

The Brickyard, and company town owner, Mr. Walt Simons, would provide the hay wagons and fruit baskets.