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, January 31, 2014

Bruce House was built in 1883 and acquired by the Waitsburg Historical Society in 1971.









Caroline O'Neal Bruce






William Perry Bruce
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Walla Walla College was renamed Walla Walla University in 2007.














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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

KIrkman House was The Benge Apartments from 1923 to 1933, named after the Frank Benge family that founded the small village of Benge just north of Washtucna, Washington. Thanks to Susan Monahan of the Kirkman House Museum for contributing to this post.



 








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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Boat Club hydroplane races at Wallula in September 1956. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.







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Monday, January 27, 2014

Square dancing









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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Snippets of early Automobile news from Up To The Times magazine over 100 years ago. Part 3









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