History Mystery for Sept. 3, 2025

Who decided to park this car in a mud-puddle near Hood River? If anyone knows this story behind the photo from Hood River History Museum, please tell it to Martin Gibson at 541-993-1801 or florag@gorgenews.com. We’ll share whatever you tell us next week.

 Last week’s image showed Crag Rats members Elwood “Tweet” Samuels (left) and David Faulkner (right), photographed at Cloud Cap Inn during the mid-1900s. The photo now resides at Hood River History Museum. Beth Hukari remembered Samuels working at Duckwall, playing the organ, and growing orchids as well as rescuing folks off Mt. Hood. Faulkner, a photographer with the Oregonian, was an honorary Crag Rats member; he lived outside the county, but helped the Crag Rats.