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, June 30, 2016

Armed Forces Day parade on Main Street, May 19 1962. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Leo the MGM Lion appeared at the Liberty Theatre escorted by motorcycle police and members of the Lions Club, September 3rd 1930. Clippings from the Walla Walla Daily Bulletin.




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Dale Carnegie course class members of March 1948 pose in the Marcus Whitman Hotel. Thanks to Dan Leeper and the Hotel for saving and sharing this photo by Earl Roberge.



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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Fly over Walla Walla in a Ford Tri-Motor airplane! Flights offered in 1928 and 1930.




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Nine Mile Dam on the Walla Walla River was built in 1905, and a fishway was added about 15 years later.





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Monday, June 27, 2016

Junior Club Review "Double or Nothing" rehearsal, November 5 1962. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.










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Friday, June 24, 2016

Budweiser Clydesdale horses perform at the Eastgate Mall, May 11 1977. Photos by Howard B Ludwigs, courtesy of Nancy Ross-Ludwigs,








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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

100 years ago from the pages of the Walla Walla Daily Bulletin newspaper (June 1916, part 2). Click on images to enlarge.

House on Alvarado Terrace



















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