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

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Edgewater Dance Pavilion on Colville Street behind the old YMCA building also sported occasional boxing and wrestling matches. Bad weather sent the dancers inside to the Arcadia at 1st & Main.














Jackie Coogan

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Downtown businesses - photo ads of 1910. Part 1.









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Monday, July 29, 2013

Stevens Treaty Council centennial re-enactment participants arrived by cars, trains, and airplanes. Photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.









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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Stevens Treaty Council centennial re-enactment of June 1955, and its pageant "Pe-Wa-Oo-Yit"








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Friday, July 26, 2013

Mordo McDonald and his Feed & Sale Stable at 4th & Poplar about 100 years ago.






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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Pete's Sport Shop








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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Aurora House hotel destroyed by fire in 1888. Advertising cards courtesy of Fred Mitchell.






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