Wheat harvest at Sam Grant's place near Prescott. Thanks to Mary Grant Tompkins for sharing these photos.

Sam and Oscar Grant

Sam Grant

Key to the City



Santa Claus gets Key to the City, November 1940

John F Kennedy did not visit Walla Walla while on the campaign trail in November 1959, but he and Jackie did stop at the Community Building in Milton-Freewater for an afternoon "coffee hour" on November 8th. A crowd of about 300 people attended including a large contingent of students from Whitman College. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Bob Schubert on the left, Bob Scoggin on the right

Diversions of 1929

Langdon Lake and Tollgate

Langdon Lake ca1917, photo courtesy of the Red Golden family

Tollgate, Oregon. Snow, skiing, and the Sky-Line Tavern in the 1940s

McCaw Hospital patients used old CCC Camp at Tollgate and Langdon Lake for reconditioning during World War II.

Lt. Arnold Leander Bjorklund