Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan

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, March 30, 2012

Pastime Cafe, 1932 - January 2006. Thanks to Fred Venneri and Randy Allessio for contributing to this post.








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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Sunshine Festival and Queen Anna Mae Davis, June 1935. File photos courtesy ot the Union-Bulletin.




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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Gardner's Department store interior views of the departments, 1954







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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Fairgrounds aerial views in 1948 and 1957, before and after the arena was relocated and the new grandstand built.






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Monday, March 26, 2012

Grocery store fires: Sigman's and Albertson's




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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Restaurant advertisements, part 3

Copper Kettle


Maurey's



Raymer and Shelton

Russell's
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Friday, March 23, 2012

County road work and equipment, ca1940






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Thursday, March 22, 2012

County road workers and rock crushers. The only named men are in the 1918 set: Storrey, Fullerton, Warren, two Renicks, and two Lannings.






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A librarian at Whitman College, 1972-2005; retired.
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