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

Saturday, May 30, 2015

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




Sam and Oscar Grant

Sam Grant


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Friday, May 29, 2015

Key to the City










Santa Claus gets Key to the City, November 1940



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Thursday, May 28, 2015

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

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Diversions of 1929










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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Langdon Lake and Tollgate








Langdon Lake ca1917, photo courtesy of the Red Golden family



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Sunday, May 24, 2015

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








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Saturday, May 23, 2015

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













Lt. Arnold Leander Bjorklund

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