Lopez Quarries

Born in 1932 to a union mason father. I watched, helped and bugged my father as soon as I could walk. At the age of 12 years old the Seattle Bricklayers Union caught me working with my father's crew in late August. This was a no-no; unions were the only option in those days. My father begged off until June of the next year, as I was about to return to grade school. So in June, one month, short of thirteen years old I was sworn into the Bricklayers Union in Seattle, Washington. I had to do an apprenticeship union sponsored. It was a 4-year course, one evening a week, during the school year.