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

Friday, September 29, 2017

Borleske Stadium on December 3rd 1965. Later that month the Stadium Board commissioned a Seattle firm to study the situation and propose upgrades with cost estimates. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

















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Thursday, September 28, 2017

Walla Walla County map (1949) with facts and figures. Thanks to Terry Rhodes for sharing this document.





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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

How the cross was placed on top of the newly remodeled Nazarene Church at Clinton and Alder in August 1964. File photos courtesy of the Union Bulletin.


Dick Hone was the Helicopter pilot from Blue Mountain Aviation


 

Cross is 12 feet long and weighs 150 pounds.










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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Buffalo postcards from the Frontier Days events of 1913-1914. Images courtesy of Donald McKelvey.





Buffalo on Main Street heading west from 2nd Ave. Marcell photo, 1914

George Weir, "Let 'em Kick". (Keller photo)

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Monday, September 25, 2017

Cropdusters and their spray planes at the Airport in the early 1960s; Blue Mountain Aviation, Ag-Cat, Sawyer, and MG Aviation. Snapshots by and courtesy of Jim Devine.


Ag-Cat taking off from Pike's Peak, 1962






Marsh Aviation cropduster by control tower 



























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