Evidence of old Odessa brick factory still exists

We were the beneficiaries last week of contractor Peter Cooper’s interest in masonry. He is the gentleman working on The Odessa Record/Any Occasion Banquet Hall building, scraping away old paint, repairing broken brick and adding the proper type of mortar to stabilize the building.

On Tuesday evening of this week, he told us he worked until midnight reparing the arch above the main doors to The Record’s offices. He told us he had to finish the work all in the same day because he had to replace the damaged brick immediately. Otherwise, the bricks above the damaged area would also loosen and com...