From the Whittier Daily News:
It takes a lot of construction to build a city like Los Angeles and its suburbs. A major part of the building of the city came right from a brick factory on the edge of current day Montebello and Commerce.  The Montebello Public Library will take a look back at Simons, California, the company town for the Simon Brick Factory in the early 1900s, with film screenings of, "The Brick People."  The public has two chances to view the documentary, at 2 p.m. and 3:45 p.m., which tells the story of the Mexican immigrants who lived and worked at the brickyard… "On the one hand it's a case study of Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and how that rise fundamentally related to race relations," Louis DeSipio, associate professor of Chicano/Latino studies, UC Irvine, said in the documentary.

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