Last week’s photograph, included above, was identified by Karl Vercouteren and Marilyn Urness.

A local family is shown, gathered around a miniature car: Grandfather Harlan “Hal” Fancher, and four of his grandchildren, children of his daughter Jocelyn “Joda” and Allan Gay. “Hal was a car dealer and probably had the little car made to promote the big autos he sold,” Vercouteren wrote. Urness, who said she was the Fanchers’ neighbor for 20 or 30 years, recalled Allan as a radiologist with The Dalles General Hospital, and Hal Fancher working at Walter Williams, one of the first auto mechanic shops in The Dalles. You can still see the old painted sign for that business from Second Street, Urness said.