Dated brick

[RustyRelics]

I found this whilst crawling through the weedy jungles of Portsmouth Ohio last year. I collect bricks, and how I started was humorous: This will be the topic of a future post.

Anyways, this brick is my favorite.

 

[jeff of pa]

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[tamrock]

I saw a brick in a Flea Market and it had info on it. I think it was labeled with the city it came from and was once a street brick from that city. I've always liked brick roads. My love of them goes back to my childhood and Burlington, Iowa and a road called snake alley. My grandpa was born and lived his entire life in Burlington and only left during his time spent in France during WWII. Grandpa never owned or drove a car, but that man would hike my butt off, as he loved to hike. We'd walk down to the Mississippi hike around the bluffs and then take a stroll up snake alley on the way home. I would say bricks have a deep meaning in my soul also and I find no more of a beautiful road than one layed of bricks.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool find and nice photo!

 

[Mekong Mike]

Roofing tiles in miami years ago were imported from Italy and you could see the finger prints in the dried clay from the makers.
The old tiles were made by putting a slab on red clay over your thigh and molding it into shape.

 

[gilmerman]

Very nice story. Pleasant memories for when your loved ones have departed this world. I always had great relationship with my elders.

 

[tamrock]

Very nice story. Pleasant memories for when your loved ones have departed this world. I always had great relationship with my elders.

I called my mom, 95 yrs old and asked her of the memories she had of snake alley, as she grew up in Burlington and it's something I do to her to keep her memory bank in her old body working. She told me in order to pass your driving test in the early 1940s, you had to take the vehicle up snake alley. That had to be a challenge driving a vehicle of her era with a standard tranny and the breaks of that time navigating that road. She never had to do it, as she never got a driver's license until the early 1950s. She decided then she needed a car and dad was in Korea and she was taught how to drive the car, by the car salesman that sold it to my mom. That was the deal she told the salesman. You show me how to drive it and she'd buy it.

 

[Davers]

I love old bricks & like most hunters Ill pick them up (if i'm not miles from the car).
The labeled ones are rare for me to find.

 

[1637]

bricks are cool,i have one of the 3.2 million that they used to pave the indy speedway back in the early 1900s,its 1904

 

[WannaDig3687]

RR, do you have a plan formulating in your head of what you will do with your bricks? You could use them for a walkway or something.

 

[RustyRelics]

RR, do you have a plan formulating in your head of what you will do with your bricks? You could use them for a walkway or something.

As of now, no plans. I have them stacked up in my barn.

 

[Hawks88]

Good looking old brick find. Congrats