{"id":5976,"date":"2014-02-13T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2014-02-13T07:49:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:49:39","slug":"the-brick-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/the-brick-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brick People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Brick People\" href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/shows\/The-Brick-People-27723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5988 alignleft\" alt=\"27723\" src=\"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/27723-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill Deverell, Director, Huntington USC Institute discusses the history of Simon&#8217;s Brick Yard #3,\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s seen by many people as ironic that there is virtually nothing left\u00a0there today, but in fact that&#8217;s fairly typical of Los Angeles having a sense of amnesia quality to its past, and\u00a0an ineffable ability to cover up what once was, but when the Simon&#8217;s Brick Yard was roaring through the 20&#8217;s and even into the Great Depression period, it was seen to be the world&#8217;s largest brick yard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Brick People\" href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/shows\/The-Brick-People-27723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Brick People&#8221;<\/a> chronicles the story and legacy of the first generation of Mexican immigrants who struggled to work at Simons Brickyard #3 in Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century. The bricks they made literally and culturally laid the foundation for Los Angeles and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by UC Irvine professor Alejandro Morales, this documentary explores themes of immigration, discrimination and cultural foundry as told by former residents and historians of Simons, California.<\/p>\n<p><em>Join the conversation @UCTelevision, #thebrickpeople<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Deverell, Director, Huntington USC Institute discusses the history of Simon&#8217;s Brick Yard #3,\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s seen by many people as ironic that there is virtually nothing left\u00a0there today, but in fact that&#8217;s fairly typical of Los Angeles having a sense of amnesia quality to its past, and\u00a0an ineffable ability to cover up what once was, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}