Clayton's Washington Brick & Lime. Its days are numbered.
While Lyle Nord and Leno Prestini and their crews dropped the smoke stacks, Lyle's wife Jean recorded the event with camera, not knowing that a half century later the entire planet would have access to her efforts.
After the brick plant was burned the final cleanup chore began.
Leno's team started on the west end and used blasting powder to topple the smoke stacks.
The last smoke stack is toppled and so ends the tale of a boom town that started with fire making bricks and ended with fire leveling the brick making plant.
This rare brick was a gift to Bob Clouse by Bill Sebright. As you can see, WB&L must have delighted in making collector bricks. Some laid out in the weather a bit longer than others.
Bill Sebright found this brick with the others in the old Brickyard. This one spent many years on the top layer of a retaining wall.
Mr Brad Campbell's Broadview Dairy 1 Pint Cream bottle zirca 1920 or earlier.The Propritor of Catalina Winery on the Lower floor invited me the run of his historic suroundings with a promise of access to 100 year old photos of the old Dairy. Stay tuned within a week.
Lyle Nord's team moved in from the east with Lyle's dozer toppeling smoke stacks.
This is a brick in the Sebright fire place. Bill and Anni dug bricks several years before they moved into their house in 1979. There are over 3000 from the old Brickyard in the fireplace, an interior wall, and on the exterior of their house.
This is a brick in the Sebright fire place. Bill and Anni dug bricks several years before the moved into their house in 1979. There are over 3000 from the old Brickyard in the fireplace, an interior wall, and on the exterior of their house.