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, March 31, 2014

Farming demonstration with mules on the Don Thomas field near Waitsburg, August 1982. Thanks to Robertta Hunt for sharing these slides that she took.







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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Army Air Base memorabilia from World War II era. Thanks to Francis Christiano and Fred Mitchell for contributing to this post.















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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Country Club fashion show staged by Alpha Chi Omega sorority from Whitman College, 1957. Outfits by Gardner's Department Store. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.















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Friday, March 28, 2014

Alberta Dooly and Bill Beaver were frequent riders in the Fair parades of the 1950s. She was the Parade Marshall in 1959. Thanks to Lisa Richards for sharing these photos.



















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Walla Walla, WA, United States
A librarian at Whitman College, 1972-2005; retired.
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