Mystery Photo No. 5 -- "Bathing Beauties"

What we know about this photo: Limited information has surfaced regarding the “Bathing Beauties” picture, published as a mystery photo in the Jan. 23, 2010, Herald and News.

Interestingly enough, the “Bathing Beauties” was previously published as a mystery photo in the Herald and News in October 1966. (We didn’t realize this when we submitted the photo to the newspaper in January of this year.)

Lena (Lewin) Cook of Redlands, Calif., responded to the Herald and News in 1966 with a letter identifying several of the girls in the photo. Mrs. Cook had been a student at Klamath County High School in the mid-1920s.

Mrs. Cook wrote that the girls were participating in a promotion event in 1927.

“I don’t remember the promoter or what was being promoted,” Mrs. Cook wrote in 1966.

A clue to the mystery is found on page 126 of the Historic Photo Album Volume II, published by the Herald and News in 2003. A photo in the album shows the same girls posing with four automobiles in front of the Klamath County Courthouse.

Following is a partial list of names provided by Mrs. Cook, from left to right:
1, unknown.
2, Inez Jenkins, later known as Mrs. Paul Dalton.
3, unknown.
4, unknown.
5, Addie Jenkins.
6, unknown.
7, Betty Darley.
8, unknown.
9, Clover Lindsey.
10, Virginia Richmond.
11-15, unknown.
16, Lena Lewin.

Still unknown is the name of the boy lying on the bottom step.

-- Updated Feb. 21, 2010.

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