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Old 09-15-2009, 08:47 PM
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Hi, I'm a journalism student at the University of Iowa and I just randomly learned about the hobby of brick collecting and I'd really love to do a story on the subject since it seems so interesting. Does anyone know someone (or maybe they themselves do it) who collects bricks and would like to tell me a little bit about it?

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I don't collect bricks but when I was preparing my mother's 1910 house for sale in Abilene, TX, last year, I found a stack of bricks in the back yard with "Abilene" baked into them.

Yep. My sister, BIL and I took them. I graduated from Abilene High back in the dark ages and could not resist.

We didn't know that years ago Abilene was quite well known for its bricks.
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Hi, I'm a journalism student at the University of Iowa and I just randomly learned about the hobby of brick collecting and I'd really love to do a story on the subject since it seems so interesting. Does anyone know someone (or maybe they themselves do it) who collects bricks and would like to tell me a little bit about it?

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Wow. Now THAT seems like an interesting hobby.
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Never heard of it. What do you do with the bricks when you have them? Pile them in the yard? Build a wall?
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Never heard of it. What do you do with the bricks when you have them? Pile them in the yard? Build a wall?
Must be a real hassle if you move too. If you had a large brick collection it would take a while to box them up. And, the cost of having movers come and move the brcks would cost a fortune, since they charge by weight...
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Stack them up along your living room wall and crank up some Pink Floyd.
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I never even thought about the whole moving part! It'd be like having a lumber collection!
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