Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: Iris Garden Club was organized in 1946, and in May of 1947 Walla Walla was officially named Iris City by ordinance of the City Council while the Iris was proclaimed to be the City Flower. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

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; about 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2024