Elisabeth Uyeda

Welcome to the Simon Brickyard Blog

The Brick workers. Top row, far right, is my pops, Aurelio Baltazar, smoking a cigarette, bottom row, far right is my Tio Magdaleno Baltazar...1937

Simons Baseball Team

Life is traveled only once..

Life is traveled only once..Today's moment becomes tomorrow's memory..Enjoy every moment; good, bad, happy, or sad;because the gift of life is LIFE itself....to all my family and friends today... laugh a little louder, smile a little larger, dream a little further, love a little extra and live a little happier!...I'm going to try to do that myself, because life is too short to do otherwise!

Exteroir of Mt...Carmel Church..Courtesy of Gurrola family

My sister Rachel and my brother Mando, circa 1951....El Hoyo, Simons

Going to the show

Who can forget catching the Montebello Bus on Sundays on Date St. and Greenwood Blvd, or by the Greenwood market, south of Date St. to go catch a movie at one of the theatres on Whittier Blvd, The Vogue in Montebello, The Strand, the Boulevard, the Royale, (Cowboy movies), the Golden Gate, the United Artists, all in East L.A.. Later in 1950 when it opened, the Garmar in Montebello.

In the late ’40′s I used to go to the Royale Theatre on Whittier Blvd in E.L.A to see a western double feature, cartoons, news reel and a serial chapter, admission was 14 cents, round trip bus ride from the Simons Brickyard was also 14 cents, so for 28 cents we would have a nice day at the movies. I would shine shoes, take bottles to the store. Man!, when ever I went to the show with a buck I felt like a rich kid….