Last week’s History Mystery photo, above, was identified as a scene from the Dufur threshing bee. Included is a slide-show of extra photos from that roll, all scanned from black-and-white negatives in the archives of The Dalles Chronicle.
Reader Nicole Hughes said, “My dad took me to it many times when I was a kid in the 1970s.” The envelope reads “Dufur Threshing Bee Aug. 1971.” More photos from this old file available on our website.
Connie Peters, whose uncle George Wilson owned a farm in Kent, Ore., had more context for our March 13 History Mystery, an aerial of Blakely Island, Puget Sound. Here are some more photos from that roll:
“Sometime in the ‘50s he and his wife Winnie moved to Blakely Island,” Peters related. “They lived in a unique house, next to the air strip, that was round and could be rotated. The only access to the Island was by boat or airplane.”
Peters lived in Mount Vernon, Wash., at the time. “... My husband and I often flew to the Island to visit. Usually we had to buzz the airstrip first to scare the deer off the strip in order to land. When Winnie died my Uncle sold the house and moved to The Dalles and married Anne Miller,” Peters related. We don’t know yet if George’s rotating house is visible in these photos.
These spiffy-looking business people posed at Sorosis Park in March of 1961. We'd love to know who they were, and why they're playing on that slide!
The Dalles Chronicle file photo
To guess this week’s photo, above, shows spiffy-looking folks playing on a slide at Sorosis Park, in March of 1961. We have no idea who they were, or what on earth they're up to. Do you?
Email your guess, memory or information to florag@gorgenews.com, or call/text 541-993-1801. Please leave a message, and spell your name, and the names of any places or people mentioned, so we can credit you in next week's history page.
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