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

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Carrot harvest on November 9th 1953, cleaning and processing at Libby McNeil cannery in the 1950s and 60s. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.









 

Joe Drazan

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Hamburger Patty Maker - a creation of James Goetsch & Fred Tompkins (G & T Products) debuted for $1.00 in 1954, but could be had at the Book Nook for half price a few years later. Thanks to Carolyn Aldrich Priest for sharing the device to be photographed.










 

Joe Drazan

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Yet more images of advertising memorabilia courtesy of Carolyn Aldrich Priest.









ink blotter

Dean Derby, Wa-Hi class of 1953




















Leather postcards were mailed for a few years, ca1905-1908














 


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