# @theoregonian on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DG9j8XNRHUK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27198574-theoregonian-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-09T03:00:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Oregonian (@theoregonian) — https://gondola.cc/theoregonian

## Caption

In December 1958, Portlanders Ken and Barbara Martin and their three young daughters headed east in the family’s cream-colored Ford station wagon to find a Christmas tree. They never returned.

Archer Mayo, the White Salmon diver who discovered the vehicle after a yearslong search, was holding his breath Friday as he and Hood River County Sheriff Matt English watched from a footbridge crossing the canal where the car had been hidden for years.

But the object that emerged from the water was a piece of black twisted metal — not an intact car.

Read more at the link in our bio.

📸: bethnakamura

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