{"id":179,"date":"2013-10-26T20:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T03:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-10-26T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T04:16:24","slug":"are-we-descendants-of-sasquatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/2013\/10\/26\/are-we-descendants-of-sasquatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we descendants of Sasquatch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-184\" alt=\"Grandma goes bannanas copy\" src=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy4-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy4-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy4-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy4-468x466.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-187\" alt=\"Grandma goes bannanas copy\" src=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy5.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"5987\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy5.jpg 6000w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy5-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy5-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Grandma-goes-bannanas-copy5-468x466.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this photo proof we are not really Almquists, but descendants of the ancient Sasquatch? We can see that grandma Nadine (Olsen) certainly seemed to have a fondness for the mysterious creature.<\/p>\n<p>I found this picture of Grandma with other pictures of grandpa Clarence Almquist, Gustaf Almquist, and Alfrieda Almquist on a road trip. \u00a0I&#8217;m thinking this may have been before Steven&#8217;s birth, on a trip up the coast, perhaps October of 1950?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lighthouse-nadine-gus-alfrieda-and-mystery1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-186\" alt=\"Lighthouse nadine gus alfrieda and mystery\" src=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lighthouse-nadine-gus-alfrieda-and-mystery1.jpg\" width=\"1971\" height=\"1905\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lighthouse-nadine-gus-alfrieda-and-mystery1.jpg 1971w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lighthouse-nadine-gus-alfrieda-and-mystery1-300x289.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lighthouse-nadine-gus-alfrieda-and-mystery1-468x452.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1971px) 100vw, 1971px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This picture was taken on the same trip, next to what I believe is the lighthouse. \u00a0It looks like great-grandpa Gus is ready for some surf-fishing. On his left is grandma Nadine, and then great-grandmother Alfrieda.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure this is the Crescent City Battery Point Lighthouse, you can see modern day pictures\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rudyalicelighthouse.net\/CalLts\/Crescent\/Crescent.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 If it is, then this would be about three years before it became automated, and no longer required lighthouse keepers. The keepers at the time of this photo were\u00a0Wayne Redrick Piland and presumably his wife.and I believe that is who is in the pictures.\u00a0This part of the trip may have had a Coast Guard connection based on Grandpa&#8217;s service and the Coast Guard&#8217;s control of Lighthouses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189\" style=\"color: #1b8be0; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; border-color: #bbbbbb; background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: start;\" alt=\"Almquists at the lighthouse copy\" src=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Almquists-at-the-lighthouse-copy.jpg\" width=\"1978\" height=\"1959\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Almquists-at-the-lighthouse-copy.jpg 1978w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Almquists-at-the-lighthouse-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Almquists-at-the-lighthouse-copy-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Almquists-at-the-lighthouse-copy-468x463.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1978px) 100vw, 1978px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Swede-ready-for-fishing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-188\" alt=\"Swede ready for fishing\" src=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Swede-ready-for-fishing.jpg\" width=\"1979\" height=\"1964\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Swede-ready-for-fishing.jpg 1979w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Swede-ready-for-fishing-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Swede-ready-for-fishing-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Swede-ready-for-fishing-468x464.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1979px) 100vw, 1979px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0And here is grandpa Clarence Almquist with Wayne. \u00a0I wish I had that awesome leather jacket!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}