100 years ago from the pages of the Walla Walla Daily Bulletin newspaper (August 1916, part 2). Click on images to enlarge.

White Eagle visit 

House of George Day, the Postmaster, 701 Valencia

Senator Poindexter visit

Kooskooskie houses

Kooskooskie Park

Moose Hall dance

Natatorium planned

Public telephones

Mavericks baseball

Pheasants escape

Trout plant in Mill Creek

Speed limit

Harold Blackman, 1895-1981, Wa-Hi and Whitman College student-athlete, World War I veteran, sportsman, & UP Railroad conductor. Photos from his albums courtesy of Lorne & Auralea Blackman.

Whitman College

Blackman is behind the soldier leaning out

At the Natatorium in WW

Pioneer Park canon 

Pioneer Park wedding fountain

On the set of the 1923 Pioneer Pageant

Atop the Baker Building (Denny Bldg in back)

Walla Walla Canning Company on Rose Street between 9th and 7th Avenues,1951. Aerial photos by Earl Roberge courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Note Washington School in the upper left, and the Power House on far right.

Note Washington School in the upper right, and Washington Park to its left

City Cousins of the Farmerettes lasted two years as a new Fair promotion - 1937 and 1938. The concept was revived for the Fair in 1947 by downtown merchants calling themselves the City Slickers teaming with Country Cousins.

1937

1937

1938

1938

1947

1947