Laura Flink, 21 and the mother of a 16-month-old son, vanished from Pacific Beach, Washington in late winter 1969. On February 21 she was last seen about 4:00 p.m., driving a red 1967 Ford Ranchero on County Road 101 toward Pacific Beach. She was reportedly heading to Moclips to pick up a couch and children’s clothing offered by a woman named Barb Askea and was wearing a green sweatshirt, green stretch pants, moccasin shoes, and a gold corduroy jacket.

Friends and her roommate had urged her not to go alone because of prior altercations with Askea, but no one accompanied her. On February 23 her brown leather wallet was found on a Hoquiam sidewalk and mailed to her post office box; on February 24 the Ranchero was found abandoned in the 700 block of J Street in Hoquiam, outside a tavern. Investigators have long suspected foul play and that Askea may have been involved; Askea denied Laura arrived in Moclips for many years but in a 2006 phone interview said Laura had come for the items and they had gone for drinks at the Moclips Tavern. Askea died the following year.

Laura’s son was raised by his maternal grandparents and only learned of the case as a teenager. What details do readers remember about Pacific Beach or Moclips in 1969 that might help shed light on Laura’s disappearance?