Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: McCaw Army Hospital closed in 1945. Surplus buildings sold and moved in 1948 to many locations around town. The gymnasium was sold to Stanfield (Oregon) for $250 where it was reconstructed in 1952 for use by the High School.

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; about 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2024

Friday, March 9, 2012

McCaw Army Hospital closed in 1945. Surplus buildings sold and moved in 1948 to many locations around town. The gymnasium was sold to Stanfield (Oregon) for $250 where it was reconstructed in 1952 for use by the High School.