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

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Wa-Hi football programs, 1953-1954














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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Pioneer Park pond drained for construction of retaining wall and path around perimeter, October 1958. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.





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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Bygone Walla Wallans seen in Up-to-the-Times magazine, 1906-1930, Part 10





















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Monday, November 24, 2014

Aunt Jemima was in Walla Walla for breakfast at the Red Apple's Strategy Room with the Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees followed by visits to all grade schools for pancake feeds; the Junior Chamber sponsored the events as a fund raiser for Youth Activities, October 25 1956. Photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.




Aunt Jemima with Police Chief Bert Watts



Note the Strategy Room door at the Red Apple


Chamber officers John Drumheller, Arthur Jones, Don Rhodes



Dutch Hahner (left), Governor Arthur Langlie with spatula

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Saturday, November 22, 2014

MacMartin and Hill mortuary and funeral home became MacMartin and Chamberlain in the mid 1920s.














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