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 450 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2024.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Turkeys! Round-up at the ranches just west of Walla Walla in the 1950s, processing at Jasper Reynold's Poultry Shipping & Feed plant, and outcomes in two local grocery stores. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.
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| Ray Shelden's turkey farm on Whitman Monument Road |
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| Jasper Reynolds, 1950s |
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| Albertson's, 1959 |
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| Selected for a temporary stay in Sigman's Grocery, 1953 |
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Fair Farmerettes of 1955. Photos by Bill Lilley courtesy of Jeanne Lilley Savage.
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| Carol Ann White (center) |
Monday, November 25, 2019
Flood of March 31st, 1931. Newly discovered negatives of the event taken by Bill Lilley, age 23, when he lived at the Birchway Apartments on Birch Street.
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| House at 221 E. Birch |
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| Birch Street looking east |
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| Birchway Apts, 248 E. Birch |
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| William T Lilley, Jr. worked at Penney's while living in the Birchway Apts |
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Penrose Memorial Library groundbreaking ceremony at Whitman College in February 1956, and students moving the collection from the old Reynolds Hall to the new building in March 1957. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.
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| President Chester Maxey on left |
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| June 1956 |
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| November 1956 |
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| Old library was in Reynolds Hall seen in background |
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| March 1st 1957 |
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| Library Director Ruth Reynolds at Reynolds Hall |
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| What may be the last armloads of books from Reynolds Hall. |
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