Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: Bamboo Room in the basement of the Whitman Hotel catered to New Year's Eve celebration hosted by Alberta Dooley. Roy Dorr played violin and Ray's Rhythm Rangers performed while Bill Beaver served the punch, Dec 31, 1957. Photos by Bill Lilley courtesy of Jeanne Savage.

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; about 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2024

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Bamboo Room in the basement of the Whitman Hotel catered to New Year's Eve celebration hosted by Alberta Dooley. Roy Dorr played violin and Ray's Rhythm Rangers performed while Bill Beaver served the punch, Dec 31, 1957. Photos by Bill Lilley courtesy of Jeanne Savage.

Alberta Dooley

Frank and Sally Mitchell

Roy Dorr on violin

Ray Conger's Rhythm Rangers