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, November 30, 2012

Fair parade of 1953. Stills from the 16mm movie by Max Hermann. Thanks to Bernard Christiano for saving these films from certain destruction. To watch, see www.centerforhomemovies.org -type "Christiano" in search box. Reel 3 contains the parade and more.













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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Allis-Chalmers farm equipment building (originally Gilbert Hunt manufactory) on lower Main Street razed in 1987. Thanks to Gary Petersen for sharing these photos.






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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

China souvenir plates, vases, dishes with Walla Walla scenes. Thanks to Nadine & Francis Christiano for sharing these images.












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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Heap of the Week (Nuts & Bolts). Wa-Hi students and their cars in the 1960s (Part 5)










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Monday, November 26, 2012

Postal History of Walla Walla County. Revised edition, 2012 (113 pages) by Robert Keatts is now available at the Fort Walla Walla Museum gift shop.








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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Camp Walla Walla became the Walla Walla Lodge








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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Heap of the week; students & their cars at Wa-Hi in the 1960s (Part 4)







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