The bricks were sold in the lead-up to the Olympics for $19.88, and people were encouraged to leave names or short messages on them. At least one wedding proposal is captured on an Olympic Plaza ...

About 33,000 engraved bricks from the 1988 Games will not be saved when Olympic Plaza closes this fall for several years of redevelopment. Gavin Young/Postmedia Article content ...

The brick pit in 1911. / Apartments tower above the brick pit today. "The saying is they were the bricks that built Sydney," said Sydney Olympic Park ecologist Jennifer O'Meara.