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

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Hurd and Company in the Baker-Boyer Building was the regional distributor of Big 4 tractors in 1912 preceding the development of the Big 4 Implement Company in 1918.






 
1918

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Sunday, August 29, 2021

Schneller Optical celebrated 32 years in 1937, followed by earlier photos from 1915-1916.









 

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Friday, August 27, 2021

First National Bank building in Freewater, Oregon -- it's present looks and its many past uses as reviewed in a series of window posters. Photos by Joe Drazan.








Stone's Grocery

Giles store

Giles Club

Daryl Clifton

 

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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Bus service to, from, and within the City as seen in news clippings.












 

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Monday, August 23, 2021

Wa-Hi Junior ROTC and the Sponsor Corps in their Annual Review of 1967 followed by a history of the program found in the 1985 review. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.













 

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Saturday, August 21, 2021

K-Mart opened in October 1974, remodeled in 1992, then closed in July 2019.


Sale ad for Oct 20, 1974

Remodeled in 1992




Razed in January 2021

 

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