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

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Lariat Motel was built on the site of the old Baker School soon after it was razed in 1957











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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Barney Oldfield and DeLloyd Thompson present spectacle of car races and air stunts at the Fairgrounds, July 9 1915







Oldfield revisits Walla Walla & Brotherton's  car dealership, May 1937



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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

United States Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson arrives on Ankeny Field by helicopter to participate in Whitman College graduation activities, June 4 1966. Photos by Bill Lilley courtesy of Jean Savage.

Student Union Building, 1947-1968 (razed in 1975)




Whitman College Amphitheatre, 1916-



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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Saint Patrick's High School basketball teams and the Lettermen's Club of 1954.







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Friday, April 24, 2015

World of Pleasure plays at the Keylor Grand Theatre in 1916.







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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Auto and motorcycle races at the Fairgrounds, July 30 1916



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Bygone Walla Wallans seen in Up-to-the-Times magazine, 1906-1930, Part 19

Louis Neace
Robert Newell


N Seil


E H Nixon


Chas Nosler
Chas Nye


Pete O'Brien

Wilmer Oakes

W S Offner


Oswald Olson

Ambrose Owsley


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