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, June 30, 2018

Tractor Show and Power Farming demonstration was held on the John Yenney place out Russell Creek Road in April 1919. Many of the thousands of visitors to the event found camping space in the Auto Camp at Boyer and Division which later was named Wildwood Park.






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Thursday, June 28, 2018

100 years ago from the pages of the Walla Walla Daily Bulletin newspaper (June 1918, part 2). Click on images to enlarge.

DAR places Fort Walla Walla plaque on American Theater






Solar eclipse

Sells Floto Circus




St Vincent Academy graduation

Spanish War Veterans convene


City water supply system







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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

New Elks Lodge interior on opening in 1973.















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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

New Elks Lodge at Rose and Palouse Street - clearing the block in early 1972, and the groundbreaking ceremony in Aug 1972.



Jack Huntington, Art Schoessler
Mayor Dan Swank





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Monday, June 25, 2018

Meet Johnny Philip Morris at the Book Nook and Tallman's - May 1937.



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Sunday, June 24, 2018

Corn processing in a local cannery in August 1957. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.










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