Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Ironic that she's carrying a brick-shaped and sized purse, given that the building in the background was built with such. Could she be the bricklayer's wife, perhaps?

 

That was my grandmother. She went around stealing one brick at a time so gramps could build their new house, dad could afford to smoke Camels, and they could afford to eat that expense food at the Silver Slipper where mom did burleque.

 

Did you ever hear the Jack Benny joke about him building his house with bricks cast from his own excrement, because he was too cheap to go out and buy normal bricks, Sir?