Christmas in the Simons Brickyard

I vividly remember the holiday seasons in the brickyard 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 as we sang Christmas carols on those cold 1940s Christmas Eves. The brickyard owner, Mr. Walt Simons, would provide the hay-wagons and fruit baskets.