Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: Doctor Walter Houser Brattain shared in the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in inventing the transistor. Photos of his medal and him giving a lecture in Physics at Whitman College in November 1964 were taken by Bill Lilley and shared here courtesy of his daughter Jeanne Lilley Savage.

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 450 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2024.