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, April 30, 2014

Flood of March 31, 1931. Thanks to Dee Hill for sharing these photos.












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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

New roads and bridges in the County, 1918-1920


Dell Sharp Bridge over the Touchet River



Flathers Bridge over the Touchet River










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Monday, April 28, 2014

Hoyt's Compound praised by Walla Wallans.






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Saturday, April 26, 2014

How the Union Pacific caboose got to Jefferson Park to hook up with the locomotive. Maher House Moving Company pulled it with their WWII Army surplus truck in November 1986. Thanks to Jerry Maher for sharing these photos.









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Friday, April 25, 2014

Maxwell photo studio: Charles Thomas Maxwell (1865-1933) and a selection of the unknown children and youth photographed in his Main Street studio located in the Stine & Stone Block.Thanks to Nancy Grant for sharing these photos.
















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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Flood of March 31, 1931 as it reached the Veterans Hospital grounds. Thanks to Dee Hill for sharing these rare photos.







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