Tidbits: Date these old town photos

Blast from the (local) past

The images to the right were shared with us by Joni Parks, deputy clerk and museum coordinator for the city of Pateros.

The first is a postcard of old town Brewster on Second Street - one among several donated to the Pateros Museum, according to Parks.

The second is an image of the former Pateros Reporter office, before it merged with the Brewster Herald to become the Herald Reporter.

Also available for viewing at the museum are postcards of snow on a bank in Bridgeprot, Wagner Mill in Okanogan and the Gamble Mill, Parks said.

These photos aren't dated - care to venture a guess as to when they were taken?

This day in history

Aug. 30

30 B.C.: Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, committed suicide.

1146: European leaders outlawed the crossbow.

1645: American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York.

1682: William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America.

1780: General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army.

1862: The Second Battle of Bull Run took place during the Civil War.

1951: The Philippines and the United States signed a defense pact.

1963: A hot line between the Kremlin in Moscow and the White House went into operation to reduce the chances of an accidental war.

1967: Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first African American Supreme Court justice.

1969: Ho Chi Minh's reply to President Nixon's letter of July 15 was received in Paris. Ho accused the United States of a "war of aggression" against the Vietnamese people, "violating our fundamental national rights" and warned that "the longer the war goes on, the more it accumulates the mourning and burdens of the American people." Ho demanded that the United States "cease the war of aggression," withdraw its troops from Vietnam and allow self-determination for the Vietnamese people.

1983: The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.

2006: The California State Senate passed Assembly Bill (AB) 32, otherwise known as the Global Warming Solutions Act. The law made California the first state in America to place caps on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, including those found in automobile emissions.