Serving the community since 1922

Features / Mystery History


Sorted by date  Results 1 - 25 of 239

  • Mystery History - Dec. 12, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Dec 12, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: The 1994 SHS varsity cheerleaders – to name a few, Kibbe McDonald, Liz Diaz, Shannon Barton and Maralou Wise....

  • Mystery History - Dec. 5, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Dec 5, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Shafter High School faculty members from 1984 included, from top left, Kalman Mathis, arts and crafts; Ben McCoy, business education;...

  • Mystery History - Nov. 28, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Nov 28, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: The 1994 Shafter High junior varsity cheerleaders, from top left, Brandi Root, Stacey Routh, Amy Person, Julie Russell and Hailey Hodges;...

  • Mystery History - Nov. 21, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Nov 21, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to [email protected]. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Shafter High 1994 MeCha Club photo of Susanna Trujillo, Alma Moreno, Juan Campos and advisor Joaquin Patino, to mention a...

  • Mystery History - Nov. 14, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Nov 14, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: The 1973-74 Winter Queen of Shafter High, Esther Albiar....

  • Mystery History - Nov. 7, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Nov 7, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Vickie Cortez identified last week's photo from brother Manuel Garcia's 1984 SHS yearbook – it was Garcia as quarterback on the t...

  • Mystery History - Oct. 31, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Oct 31, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: The Ratzlaff brothers, who served in World War I, came from a long-established Wasco family....

  • Mystery History - Oct. 24, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Oct 24, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: An aerial view of the Shafter water tower on Central Avenue. Photo taken in 1941 by Rodger William....

  • Mystery History - Oct. 10, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Oct 10, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Graddy's Goal Busters battle it out in a Shafter AYSO soccer match Oct. 3, 1984....

  • Mystery History - Oct. 3, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Oct 3, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Joe O'Brien, Trotting Association Hall of Fame member, on Oct. 3, 1984....

  • Mystery History - Sept. 12, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Sep 12, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Manuel Ramirez worked for Shafter Public Works in 1984....

  • Mystery History - Sept. 5, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Sep 5, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to [email protected]. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Danny Tatum, Santos Martinez and Chuck Wright in a Richland Chevrolet car ad in The Shafter Press on July 18, 1984....

  • Mystery History - Aug. 29, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Aug 29, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Richland PTA Committee gearing up for the schools' Fall Festival in September 1984. From left are Jeanie Firkins, Doyle Amos and Donna...

  • Mystery History - Aug. 22, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Aug 22, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com.Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Richland Junior High rebuilt after fire in the mid 1980s....

  • Mystery History - Aug. 15, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Aug 15, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: The Shafter Stingrays swim Team at the Shafter Aquatic Center on Aug. 6, 2014....

  • Mystery History - Aug. 8, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Aug 8, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Richland Upper Grades 7th grade 1963 class with current resident Susan Grisham in the last row, third from last....

  • Mystery History -Aug. 1, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Aug 1, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress. com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Handel's potato shed off Lerdo Highway in 1965....

  • Mystery History - July 25, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Jul 25, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Sally Saenz and son Jimmy turn the first shovels of dirt for their new home in the Mexican Colony, now La Colonia. It was the first of...

  • Mystery History - July 18, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Jul 18, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: P.F Ed Bender, John Allen and Danny Escalante, among others, in May 1981....

  • Mystery History - July 11, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Jul 11, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to [email protected]. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: The Shafter High School football team in 1965 at a pep rally before the Wasco rivalry game...

  • Mystery History - July 4, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Jul 4, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to [email protected]. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Dolly Hei had the correct answer. Marjorie Liles (Haworth) took the photo at the Shafter swimming pool on July 13, 1950. The young...

  • Mystery History - June 27, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Jun 27, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week....

  • Mystery History - June 20, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Jun 20, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: The Shafter-Wasco Maple Leaf Potato Shed Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs float at the 1955 Potato Festival parade....

  • Mystery History - June 6, 2024

    The Shafter Press|Jun 6, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: An open-air skating rink across from the Shafter Post Office on State Street on June 24, 1941....

  • Mystery History - May 23, 2024

    The Shafter Press|May 23, 2024

    Here's this week's challenge, courtesy of the Shafter Historical Society. If you know the location, circumstances, exact or rough date and/or people in the photo, send your educated (or semieducated) guess to The Press, 455 Kern St., Suite E, Shafter, CA 93263, or e-mail it to mysteryphoto@The ShafterPress.com. Winners will be revealed here next week. LAST WEEK: Shafter's 1938 sugar beets harvest at a shed on Lerdo Highway. Answered by Shafter resident Jimmy Sible....

Page Down

Rendered 12/21/2024 04:39