G ’ S A TTIC Answer to last week´s Mystery Picture

This week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture

This is pretty much as challenging a picture as we can run. You’ve got four people in totally different costumes. Were they in a play? At a costume party?

It’s a more recent photo because it ran in color.

But who are these people? What were they doing? When and where was this picture taken? Beats us. All

Ooking Back

June 1, 1933 – 90 Years Ago we really know is that this picture 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 (509-773-3777), or drop in at the office—and remember, you’re welcome to come in and take a look at the original photograph.

We colorized this photo from last week. Ted Alexander was the resounding answer we got to last week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture. Though the picture has the dates 1945 and 1954 on it, we were advised that Mr. Alexander didn’t move to Goldendale until the summer of 1955. He was the county extension agent for several years, and a few people recalled that he and his wife, Gladys, spent some time in the Middle East and wondered if this was part of the time period. The July 15, 1965, edition of The Sentinel has a story of the Alexanders as they depart for Saudi Arabia on a mission for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Previously they had spent time in Pakistan, and the article mentioned this about their time in both countries:

“Alexander will be based in Riyadh and will probably be doing all his work there, while in Pakistan he was working in the villages with a minimum of equipment. In Pakistan he had to recruit the people he was to train and even write the textbooks with which to train them. He is in hopes that Saudi Arabia will work out a little better. The FAO is a very international group, and Americans are few and far between; however, the primary industry in the country is American oil interests.”