Here’s a scene of winter, such as has descended on much of the country lately. There are not many clues from this picture as to where it is located, but we are sure some of our sleuths will figure it out. Send your answer as to where this is to elliott@brack.net, and tell the town where you live.
Several readers, including some new names, recognized the last Mystery Photo. Fran Worrall of Lawrenceville wrote: ‘Today’s mystery photo is the Dhobi Ghat open air laundry in Mumbai, India. The area has about 4,000 slum tenement housing units and a sprawling laundry that was built during the British Raj in 1890. In 2011, it garnered a Guinness Book of World Records entry under ‘most people hand-washing clothes at a single location’”.
The photo came from Miriam Machida of Watkinsville. Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C., added: “The market is located at Mahalaxmi railway station in southern Mumbai. The washers, known as dhobis, work in the open to clean clothes and linens from Mumbai’s hotels and hospitals. It was constructed in 1890.” Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., called the photo “an open-air laundromat.”
Also recognizing the photograph were Jean Harrivel, Duluth; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Shannon Taylor, Lawrenceville; Blake Williams, Buford; Michael Perdue, Conyers; and Lou Camerio, Lilburn.
- SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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