Visited a 1920s theater downtown. The brick archway over the stage door was done with no mortar joints showing.

How do you lay bricks that tight without any visible mortar line on the face?

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Hold up, wait, you actually noticed that @nathana48? I walked right past it and didn't even see the mortar thing he's talking about.

lopez.karen24d ago

Honestly, who actually goes around inspecting brick archways for mortar joints unless they're way too into old buildings? It's a cool detail and all, but I bet you'd only notice if you were purposely looking for it. Ngl, I'd probably just walk past and think "neat old theater" and move on with my day.

nathana4824d ago

Hold up, wait, you walked right past it and didn't even notice the mortar? Man, that's the main thing that makes those old arches stand out after a hundred years. You gotta look at the little V-shaped grooves they cut between the bricks to fake a keystone, otherwise the whole thing just looks like a plain stack of bricks. That tiny detail is like a secret handshake from some old timey bricklayer who knew what he was doing.