Friday's Featured Photo (s)

 Unknown Photo from Hansen File.  Clown, Gypsy and Guy with Glasses. 

    This photograph was in the Hansen File.  On the back is written "H. Lockwood 11/34".  It looks like a Halloween party!  This picture's context was unknown to me (Why was it in with the Hansen family pictures? Who was H. Lockwood?  Was he the Clown or the Guy with the Glasses?)

..... until a few days ago when I found this photo in my cousin Skip's garage....

    On the back is written "H. Lockwood 11/34"!   As I was looking at this picture I recognized Uncle Jack (Jack Hansen) sitting on the floor, third from the right.  The Guy with Glasses and the  young man dressed as a Clown are sitting directly to the right of Uncle Jack. The young woman dressed as a gypsy is in the top row, third from the left.  

  Uncle Jack was 28 years old in 1934.  He was living and working in Sacramento, California as a clerk by the 1930 US Census, but in 1933 he was back in Grass Valley working for PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) and going on hikes with the YMCA Hiking Club. This may have been a group of friends from Grass Valley.  They appear to be having a very good time.  H. Lockwood must have been a good friend of Uncle Jack's.  I still don't know if he was the Clown, or the Guy with Glasses.  Or...was H. Lockwood the Gypsy??

  I would love to know which building this picture was taken in!  It may have been taken at the Bourne Cottage Clubhouse (now a part of the Empire Mine State Historic Park).  

  And, another photo mystery solved.  Mostly.