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

Monday, December 31, 2012

Airplane show at Fairgrounds, April 27, 1911. Thanks to Lorne & Auralea Blackman for sharing these photos. (part 1)

Harold Blackman



Fairgrounds grandstand and Pavilion

Willard in Curtiss airplane




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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Baseball teams pictured in Up-to-the-Times magazine.

 





Davis-Kaser baseball team 

Gilbert Hunt baseball team

Northwestern Gas and Electric baseball team

Schwabacher Company baseball team




Bears baseball team

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Business cards from over one hundred years ago, many from Washington Territory (W.T.) days. Thanks to Francis & Nadine Christiano for sharing these images.












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Friday, December 28, 2012

Frontier Days bear roping at the Fairgrounds, 1913-14.

Keller photo



Marcell photo


Bawgus photo

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Sears first store on Main Street, 1928, and beyond...








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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Football game on Ankeny Field, Whitman College, 1914. Wa-Hi wins over Pasco High School, 82-0. Thanks to Lorne & Auralea Blackman for sharing these photos.







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Monday, December 24, 2012

Full page Christmas ads from the Union-Bulletin






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