Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: Bert Watts, Police Chief from 1951 to 1983. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin. Photo with movie star Walter Brennan courtesy of Tye Watts.

BYGONE WALLA WALLA PROJECT BY JOE DRAZAN is a local non-profit, non-commercial effort to build and share a visual history of Walla Walla. Use SEARCH box or the INDEX, or just scroll. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE; right click & open in new tab for even LARGER view. WANTED! Your old snapshots, slides, or negatives of Walla Walla area places and events to share in this project, please contact me to get them scanned in; over 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2025

Friday, January 22, 2016

Bert Watts, Police Chief from 1951 to 1983. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin. Photo with movie star Walter Brennan courtesy of Tye Watts.

Art Eggers (seated) buys Frontier Days tickets

Walter Brennan on right gets a parking ticket in front of the Whitman Hotel in the 1950s. That style parking meter was replaced in 1959.
(undated photo courtesy of Tye Watts)