G OLDENDALE ’ S A TTIC

Answer to last week´s Mystery Picture

Though we have no idea on the year, Karen Henslee provided two names for last week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture. The two

Points to ponder:

This week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture

We could swear we’ve seen the woman on the left in a store somewhere. Maybe she’s a model. What’s that statue the guy on the left is holding? Why is he holding it? And what’s it a statue of? Why is the man on the right wearing a top hat? This is indeed a mystery photo on many levels. But who are these people? What was the occasion for the picture? Where and when

L Ooking Back

March 14, 1893 – 130 Years Ago was it taken? Beats us. All we know about this picture is that it ran in The Sentinel sometime, lost in the annals of yesteryear. If you know anything about it, please drop us an email (info@ goldendalesentinel.com), or give us a call (509-7733777), or drop in at the office—and remember, you’re welcome to come in and take a look at the original photograph.

If it weren’t for Thomas Edison, we’d all be watching TV by candlelight.

“Dad, tell us again how when you were a kid, you had to walk all the way across the room to change channels!”

I walked into my Sarcastics Anonymous meeting five minutes late. “Oh,” they said, “nice of you to join us.”

A harp is a piano after taxes.

I used to think the International Date Line was a matchmaking service.

Last week loggers started to work on getting out logs for the big raft that is to be constructed soon at Stella, on the lower Columbia. In speaking of the proposed raft, an Astoria paper says: If the projectors of the raft are successful in their undertaking, it will open a new outlet along the Columbia. Captain Robinson, who is interested in the raft, says there is no doubt in his mind that it will be a success. It should be headed for San Francisco in May. The raft will be 525 feet long, 52-foot beam, and 30 feet draft.

March 15, 1913 – 110 Years Ago

There was a wood sawing bee at the Knox place in Lucas a few days ago. Fourteen men sawed wood all day and at night had 14 cords of stove wood.

March 26, 1953 – 70 Years Ago

There was quite an air of excitement at the Goldendale Primary School last Monday. A merry-go-round was installed, and it is a near certainty that it will help keep many of the kiddies busy and out of mischief during recess and before and after school hours. Another improvement at the primary school is the completion of a tree planting chore. Shade trees have been long needed. Funds for the merry-go-round and the shade trees were provided by the PTA.

March 15, 1973 – 50 Years Ago

Goldendale’s third game at the State A league basketball tourney was one of the best for the Timberwolves – heads up and successful – but it had its humor and its oddities. At one point the announcer said that Bruce Kubler’s scoring was even – he’d scored 2 for Goldendale and 2 for Mt Baker. And at the end of the game he said Bruce was high point man for Goldendale in scoring for the Mountaineers! All this was, of course, due to the odd fluke in which the ball sailed off the Goldendale forward’s arm and into the Mt. Baker basket as he was trying hard for a rebound. In the way of sidelights of that game (in which Goldendale led all the way) I was interested to note that 9 times the score was exactly double: 4-2. 10-5, 14-7, and 16-8 in the fi rst quarter; 38-19, in the second and 40-20, 44-22, 50-25 and 52-26 in the third.

March 15, 1973 – 50 Years Ago

This year’s seniors on the basketball team – Scott Doubravsky, Scott Basse, Greg Ruland, Larry Hill, and Brett Schuster – would have been playing Kick the Can, or flying kites or playing tag in the third grade when the last GHS team played in a state tournament. That was in 1964, the climax of the “golden years” for us where we sent teams to state from 1959 to 1964, missing only a “building” year in 1963. A two-year string saw us at state in ’53 and ’54, and previous to that we cut our teeth in ’46 and went back the next two years. This present team is the eleventh to go to state, the ninth team to place. Only two teams didn’t make a rating, ’47 and ’48. Highest ranking one came in third, both in ’61 and ’64. The ’52 team came in fourth, ’60 made it to fi fth, ’59 and ’62 placed seventh and ’46 and ’53 took eighth. We were in the B League in 1946, and the tournament was at Cheney. Coach Bill Gregory took Pat Whitehill (Dr. Pat, who is now on the faculty at EWSC at Cheney.), Ed Sarsfield, Stewart Basse, Mark Kayser, Glen Webber, Wally Husted, Charles Brock, Paul Adkison, Henry Drury, and Skip Hansen. The Basses are our fi rst father-son combination from here to go to State, Stewart in ’46 and ’47 and Scott in ’73.

March 15, 1973 – 50 Years Ago

Work is expected to start this spring on the church to be built across from the IOOF cemetery by the Church of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as Mormon Church. Members are currently engaged in various fund-raising activities.

—Richard Lefever Klickitat County Historical Society